status of VMware on 2.4?

Hello All!

Could anyone say something good about VMware support of 2.4 kernel. I heard about problems with earlier 2.4 kernels.

Any success stories?

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I've been using VMware on both a Dell Inspiron 5000 and ,within the last year, a 5000e on Linux kernels since the 2.3.99 kernels and it has worked very well.

The earlier system was running Redhat 6.2, and the 5000e has run RH 7.0, 7.1, and most recently the roswell beta. VMware does require some patches to thier modules to make them compile with recent 2.4.x kernels (I think it broke around 2.4.7). I don't have the URL handy but it's in the lkml archives (that's where I found them when I recently upgraded to 2.4.8-ac1).

Anyway, I've used this machine daily for over a year now, I spend about 50% of my time in the VM running Windows 2000 Pro for compatibility with applications at work. It's been rock solid for me, the last serious problem I had was trying to get the modem to work when, for some reason, Windows 2000 lost the settings for serial ports and on the next reboot decided I had
8 serial ports. Still, this was minor, and I did get that resolved as
well.

Later,
Tom

I've had VMWare 2.0.4 running on kernel 2.4.7-ac9 here for well over a week with no problems. I had to apply a couple patches to the modules (vmmon, vmnet) to get them to compile - the patches are not from VMWare, but are posted (or at least URL-posted) in the archives to this mailing list.

tw

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