Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: FW: Linux 2.6.10 under VMware - NULL pointer. | Date | Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:33:35 -0500 | From | "Piszcz, Justin Michael" <> |
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> Questions: > 1. Is the VMWare host Windows or Linux? The VMWare host is Windows XP SP2.
> 2. Is the distribution of Linux you are attempting to run as a guest one > that is supported by VMWare? Previously, it was Slackware and now Debian, not "officially supported." But I never had any problem with kernels 2.6.5-2.6.9 with either distribution.
> 3. Are you using the latest version of VMWare? Yes, I am using the latest stable.
-----Original Message----- From: M. Edward Borasky [mailto:znmeb@cesmail.net] Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 4:32 PM To: Piszcz, Justin Michael Subject: Re: FW: Linux 2.6.10 under VMware - NULL pointer.
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 10:49 -0500, Piszcz, Justin Michael wrote: > At first, I thought these problems may have been related to XFS; however, I am now using ext2 and they still persist. > > Under the same Virtual Machine, Slackware-9.1, 10 & -current worked OK with kernels 2.6.5-2.6.9. > > The current distribution I am running is Debian Sarge 3.1rc2 with 2.6.10. > > Any ideas?
Questions:
1. Is the VMWare host Windows or Linux? 2. Is the distribution of Linux you are attempting to run as a guest one that is supported by VMWare? 3. Are you using the latest version of VMWare?
VMWare is a commercial, licensed product. I have a license (Windows XP Host), but I haven't done much with it recently, mostly because the machine in question is now a *real* dual-boot and it doesn't really have enough RAM to support a Linux guest in the manner to which Linux is accustomed. :)
When I was using VMWare with Linux guests, however, my recollection is that Red Hat Linux was supported; everything else was "roll your own". I was able to get Debian "woody", Knoppix LiveCDs and hard disk installs to work easily as guests. A little more hacking was required with Gentoo, because of the different way Gentoo handles "/etc/init.d".
If I run out of more interesting things to do this weekend, I might upgrade my VMWare to the latest stable and try to load Gentoo 2004.3 as a guest with a 2.6 kernel, just to see what happens. I have Gentoo's 2.6.10-r3 running on all of my Linux boxes. I had one panic with 2.6.10-r1, but no events of any kind since that.
Ed Borasky
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