latest upgrade seems to have broken vmware3

[Scott Robbins]

I've only seen one or two mentions of this after a fair amount of
googling, so I don't know if it's just something on my system or more
general.

I've had vmware3 working without problems for quite awhile. Today, I
upgraded to the latest CURRENT and when I started vmware I got an error
message that the vmmon module wasn't loaded.

I then tried to kldload it--the module is still showing in
/usr/X11R6/lib/vmware/modules/vmmon_up.ko

I got the message that there was no such file or directory.

One googled solution, although a bit old, suggested reinstalling rtc
then reinstalling vmware3. I tried this solution however, the build
died in vmmon-only. It shows an error at line 1344 of
work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c

/usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c:1344:
error: `avail_end' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c:1344:
error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c:1344:
error: for each function it appears in.)
*** Error code 1

(Then it gives the usual stop in /usr/ports/blah/blah).
Those are the only errors I see before the stop error.

So, I'm at a bit of a loss, I'm not sure what the next step would be to
troubleshoot the problem.

Thank you for any help. I'm not sure what other information would be
useful, but can reproduce this consistantly.

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[Kip Macy]

"avail_end" has been gone for a while. If you're up to it, you can update
the code to calculate it by iterating through the ranges in phys_avail array
and find the highest address. HTH.

-Kip

[Scott Robbins]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 03:37:30PM -0800, Kip Macy wrote:

Scott Robbins wrote:

> >I've had vmware3 working without problems for quite awhile. Today, I
> >upgraded to the latest CURRENT and when I started vmware I got an error
> >message that the vmmon module wasn't loaded.

> >/usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c:1344:
> >error: `avail_end' undeclared (first use in this function)
> >
> >/usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c:1344:
> >error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> >
> >/usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c:1344:
> >error: for each function it appears in.)
> >*** Error code 1

> "avail_end" has been gone for a while. If you're up to it, you can update
> the code to calculate it by iterating through the ranges in phys_avail array
> and find the highest address. HTH.
>

> -Kip

That's well beyond my abilities and knowledge. I'll try googling
for information on how to do it, or ask a few programming friends.

Thank you for the hint though.

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[Kip Macy]

>
> That's well beyond my abilities and knowledge. I'll try googling
> for information on how to do it, or ask a few programming friends.
>
> Thank you for the hint though.

Pass this on to your programming friends:

static vm_paddr_t
get_avail_end(void)
{
vm_paddr_t avail_end;
int i;

avail_end = phys_avail[1];

for (i = 0; phys_avail[i + 1]; i += 2) {
if (phys_avail[i + 1] > avail_end)
avail_end = phys_avail[i + 1];
}

return avail_end;
}

-Kip