Messages in this thread | | | From | "Petr Vandrovec" <> | Date | Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:15:16 +0100 | Subject | Re: vmware and 2.5 kernels ? |
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On 12 Mar 02 at 15:04, John Covici wrote:
> Hi. I am trying to get the vmware modules to compile with the 2.5 > kernel (2.5.6-pre2). I replaced the malloc.h references with slab.h as > there is no longer a malloc.h, but I am still getting errors with > current->fd structures.
Get patches from usual place (ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/, update8 is currently latest). You must have VMware 3.0, as I do not (and nobody else does AFAIK) support VMware 2.0 on 2.5.x kernels - you need to patch VMware binary to put sysinfo() call into it, instead of parsing /proc/meminfo contents, which changed before 2.5.1 (yes, they did not learn from 2.3.24 /proc/meminfo lesson :-( ) and I have no interest in fixing it in old version. VMware 3.1 will work on 2.5.6. I have no idea about future kernels, as always...
If you are using VMware on oficially unsupported kernels, please visit nntp://news.vmware.com/vmware.for-linux.experimental, you'll find couple of your possible questions answered there.
And as always - there is no warranty, and I have no idea whether it is legal to use my patch in the U.S. Best regards, Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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