Re: kernel bug or vmware bug?

[John Poelstra <poelstra redhat com>]

John Poelstra said the following on 03/29/2007 12:19 PM Pacific Time:
> I'm running VMWare workstation 5.3 on FC6 i386 with the latest Fedora 
> packages.
>
> For the past week or so VMware has not been happy attempting to install 
> rawhide or F7T2 or F7T3.  Strangely FC6 guests run fine.  The symptoms 
> are that the install freezes and VMware itself consumes 100% of one cpu 
> on my box.
>
> Does anyone else have this problem?

I think it is a definite FC6 kernel problem. With 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 and 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 I see this problem repeatedly. If down rev to the kernel that GA'd with FC6--2.6.18-1.2798.fc6, no freezes and everything works.

How do I narrow down where to report this bug?

Thanks,
John