Latest kernels and VMWare

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Sun Jul 16 16:49:02 UTC 2006


On 7/16/06, Christopher A. Williams <chrisw01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 20:59 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> >
> > I have not had a problem with vmware for a while after using the usual
> > vmware-any-any.tar.gz [ http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ ]
>
> Same here. Using the latest vmware-any-any.tar.gz patch on VMware
> Workstation 5.5, the compiler flags a few warnings, but it compiles and
> runs just fine.
>
> I also just loaded VMware Server GA version on FC5 with the same kernel
> update (2.6.17-1.2157). It compiles flawlessly out of the box with no
> warnings at all (no patches required).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
This problem occurs with post FC5 kernels (e.g., Rawhide kernels).

any-any-101 (latest) should work for any pre 2.6.18-rc1 kernel (ie.
2339 or earlier).  After that, Rawhide went to 2.6.18-rc1 kernels.

If you have this working with latest VMWware workstation and post
.2339 kernel (i.e., on 2.6.18-rc1 kernel), please post how you did
it......

Otherwise, I believe we need to await 'deeper' patching.

tom
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Tom London




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