Upgrade to Oneiric breaks VMWare Player

After upgrading the Ubuntu install on my laptop from Natty to Oneiric my VMWare Player failed to start. It gave a error about not being able to compile the wmmon module. The compile process reported errors like:

/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:783:59: error: ‘SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED’ undeclared here (not in a function)

The fix was to repeat the official installation instructions. No need to remove the old one first. This upped the major version number in the progress.

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Tags: natty, oneiric, player, SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED, ubuntu, upgrade, vmware, wmmon

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Small Dropbear » VMware Player on Debian Says:
February 18, 2012 at 8:50 am | Reply
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