Is XEN kernel an answer to VMWare crash?
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Sun Sep 25 17:30:12 UTC 2005
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Jarkko Elfving wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've tried to compile VMWare to FC4 in kernel 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 but it
> stalls everything while it tries to start up networking. X does not get
> any actions or commands, keyboard and mouse are not working - cold boot
> is the only way get it back in to life and VMWare module must be skip
> manually on boot up (and then of course remove from starting service
> list).
>
> Now I've read little about XEN kernels and did not get the point of it.
> I figure out that XEN is some kind of Virtual Machine kernel itself (I
> mean, I can boot in other OS within using Linux - or something like
> that). Or am I right at all?
>
> I was thinking would the XEN kernel be the answer to VMWare crash?
I doubt it.
>
> Please help me on this...
Have you applied the latest vmware-any-any-update patch from
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/?
>
> Regards,
> Jarkko Elfving
>
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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