29th June 2007 will be a very remarkable day for a long time. Well, at least for me.
The biggest news is of course that Apple launch its iPhone. I witnessed the queue in front of Apple Store in Las Vegas 8 hours before it officially launched.
Second thing, for those of you that uses Java. Eclipse Europa is launched in the same day. The press is not so big, maybe because of all Apple iPhone news. But it’s here with all new features that are very tempting, especially those Mylyn offered. This plugin is the first project that got included in standard distribution of Eclipse Java Package.
The last, 29th June 2007 is also big day for TopCoder. The winner of TCO07 is announced and I got the opportunity to see the magnificent event myself. See the official blog to know more about it. But you probably already screwed if you miss the webcast.
Published on
June 1, 2007 in
eclipse.
In the spirit of Europa, the next release train of Eclipse 3.3, I will try to post some improvements that are available in the release. These improvements will be limited to the ones that I will use and I think will be useful for most programmers (Java especially).
So, the series will be begin with scripted refactoring.
Continue reading ‘Scripted Refactoring’
The default VMWare Player and Workstation distribution can’t be installed in Ubuntu 7.04 due to some kernel errors. This is the error message:
Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.Building the vmmon module.
Building for VMware Player 1.0.2 or 1.0.3 or VMware Workstation 5.5.2 or 5.5.3.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-gentoo-r6/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r6'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:85:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘compat_exit’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘exit_code’
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘_syscall1’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r6'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.
What you have to do is:
- change dir to the installer directory, and enter /lib/modules/source
- untar vmmon.tar
tar xvf vmmon.tar
- edit the file vmmon-only/include/compat_kernel.h, add the following preprocessor statements
/*
* compat_exit() provides an access to the exit() function. It must
* be named compat_exit(), as exit() (with different signature) is
* provided by x86-64, arm and other (but not by i386).
*/
#define __NR_compat_exit __NR_exit
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,19)
static inline _syscall1(int, compat_exit, int, exit_code);
#endif
- tar back the file
mv vmmon.tar vmmon.orig.tar
tar cvf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
- run vmware-config.pl again
# sudo ./vmware-config.pl
...
You can now run VMware Player by invoking the following command:
"/opt/vmware/player/bin/vmplayer".
Enjoy,
--the VMware team