Problem installing tools on 3.18 kernel

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MichaelJones

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The tools will not install on the 3.18 kernel because of some compile failures. The problem is in pvmnet/pvmnet.c on line 97:19 where alloc_netdev has the wrong number of arguments. Its actually worse, in that if I go back and boot on the previous kernel, the graphics are messed up, and you are forced to reinstall tools. In both cases, I have to run the tools from the command line on the mounted CD rather than it launching the GUI updater.

Is anyone updating the tools for 3.18?
Is there a way to manage booting on more than one kernel?
For the second question, the goal is to run: make headers_install

I am not sure if this will interfere with installing tools on older kernels. Perhaps if they were already installed before installing 3.18 and I never update tools, all will be good.

I am running Ubuntu 14 TLS, but I assume this is a more general problem, and not Ubuntu specific.

An info on plans to update for 3.18? Any advice?
 
Hi.
I just installed the tools for kernel 3.18.
I followed the install script manually. Once the kmod's tar file is uncompressed, I modified the pvmnet.c by adding a third parameter to the alloc_netdev macro: NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE (remember, the third parameter). Once modified I continued with the script commands manually.

The process compiled the needed tools for all the kernels I got available (multiple kernels are managed by GRUB through /etc/default/grub.conf).
 
Hi,
I am running Kali 1.1 on Parallels 9 for Mac and am having the same issues.
Tried loading Parallel Tools three or four different ways (from virtual disc, copied to the Kali environment from the virtual disc [as it didn't have execute permissions on the disk itself], and also follwing several threads from forums - listed below). All of these attempts resulted in the an error message:
"An error occurred whn downloading required components for Parallels Tools installation.
-Kernel sources
Install these components and try again"

I don't have any clues as to what sources may be missing.

Any other ideas about how this might be solved? Anyone already done it?? I can't find anything else.
Another thing I tried was to boot Kali from its own USB drive (dual booting, not through virtually with Parallels), which took a long time as one cannot simply apply the .iso file, the whol thing needed to be copied to the USB stick with 'dd' and so on. This however also didn't work. It actually didn't even make it into Kali, it froze while still at the dual boot screen, subsequently blowing out my USB port, requiring a SMC reset on my macbook pro.

All of these exoeriences are leading me to believe that Kali, running on kernel version 3.18 is simply not compatible with current versions of the other software involved.

I would be greatful for any help. Here are links to forums/methods I have used, none of which worked so far.

Thanks for your help in advance.
 
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