vmware and 2.5 kernels ?

DISCUSSION Petr Vandrovec 2 participants 2 messages Mar 13, 2002

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Petr Vandrovec

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2002-03-13 11:18 UTC #0 lore raw

Quoted 4 lines · John Covici

Hi. I am trying to get the vmware modules to compile with the 2.5 kernel (2.5.6-pre2). I replaced the malloc.h references with slab.h as there is no longer a malloc.h, but I am still getting errors with current->fd structures.

Get patches from usual place (ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/, update8 is currently latest). You must have VMware 3.0, as I do not (and nobody else does AFAIK) support VMware 2.0 on 2.5.x kernels - you need to patch VMware binary to put sysinfo() call into it, instead of parsing /proc/meminfo contents, which changed before 2.5.1 (yes, they did not learn from 2.3.24 /proc/meminfo lesson :-( ) and I have no interest in fixing it in old version. VMware 3.1 will work on 2.5.6. I have no idea about future kernels, as always...

If you are using VMware on oficially unsupported kernels, please visit nntp://news.vmware.com/vmware.for-linux.experimental, you'll find couple of your possible questions answered there.

And as always - there is no warranty, and I have no idea whether it is legal to use my patch in the U.S.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec [email protected]

John Covici

2002-03-13 15:06 UTC #1 lore raw

Thanks much -- I will try this, but I haven't seen anything a

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Thanks much -- I will try this and look for the 3.1 which I haven't
seen any announcement about.


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