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[Klaasjan Brand]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 14:38 -0400, Matt Galvin wrote:
> > Third, vmware still aborts if you try building.  The last
> > good kernel was 1253 for me.  I am on Athlon 64
> > system with Asus K8V-SE deluxe mb.
> 
> Same here, on a P4. Here is the output where the build fails trying to
> compile bridged networking

> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1267_FC4-smp-i686'
> cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
> The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.
> 
> Starting VMware services:
>    Virtual machine monitor                                 [  OK  ]
>    Virtual ethernet                                        [  OK  ]
>    Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0                       [FAILED]
>    Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background)        [  OK  ]
>    NAT service on /dev/vmnet8                              [  OK  ]
> 
> The configuration of VMware Workstation 5.0.0 build-13124 for Linux for this
> running kernel completed successfully.

You can build without the bridged networking.
However, try calling "dmesg" after that build. I see a huge "oops" in
the log... It's not loading perfectly and anything related to that
module (including starting vmware) will hang.

Klaasjan