boo. after rebuilding my kernel/modules vmware-config.pl doesn’t want to compile vmmon on 2.6.24.

Building the vmmon module.

Building for VMware Workstation 6.0.0.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only’
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.24′
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driverLog.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/comport.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
In file included from include/asm/bitops.h:2,
from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/./include/vcpuset.h:74,
from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/./include/modulecall.h:23,
from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.h:19,
from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/hostif.h:18,
from /tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.c:15:
include/asm/bitops_32.h:9:2: error: #error only <linux/bitops.h> can be included directly
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o] Error 1

i found a how-to to modify the vmware-any-any-update115 so that vmmon would compile. [here] vmware is working under 2.6.24! woot woot.