Fedora 18 and update to kernel 3.8.1

Today, I updated Fedora 18 and, as a consequence, kernel was also updated to version 3.8.1. Up until now, after each upgrade only thing I had to do is to softlink version.h file (see this post, section Virtualization). But now, VMCI module didn't compile either. Luckily, some had the same problem during RC status of kernel 3.8 and they successfully solved it. :) I tried it, and it worked flawlessly.

You need to download the patch and then execute the following commands (as a user root):

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
cp vmci.tar vmci.tar.SAVED
tar xf vmci.tar
cd vmci-only
patch -p1 < path to downloaded patch filecd ..
tar cf vmci.tar vmci-only/
rm -rf vmci-only

Be careful with the last rm command. :) Also, cp command is only precaution, if something goes wrong, you have a copy of old vmci.tar archive.

Anyway, just for the completeness here is what you should do to fix missing version.h file:

cd /usr/src/kernels/3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64/include/linux
ln -sf /usr/src/kernels/3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h .

And that's it. Probably soon will appear all-in-one-patch that will streamline this whole procedure.