Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 27 Apr 2002 01:01:34 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: File corruption when running VMware. |
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:30:37PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 24 Apr 02 at 2:01, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Hong-Gunn Chew wrote: > > > > > I have a repeatable problem when running VMware workstation 3.00 and > > > 3.01. The cause is still unknown, and could be VMware itself, the > > > hardware or the kernel. > > > > If you can reproduce it without VMware or with only the > > open source part of VMware (ie without any of the binary > > only parts) we might have a chance of debugging it. > > Hi again, > one of 2.4.x kernel images available in SuSE's 8.0 has patched&enabled > support for page tables in high memory, and this quickly revealed > incompatibility between VMware's vmmon page table handling and > ptes above directly mapped range. > > So if you have >890MB of RAM and your kernel is compiled with support > for pte in high memory, please stop using VMware, or reconfigure your > kernel to not use pte in high memory (4GB config without pte-in-highmem > is OK). Using pte-in-highmem with vmmon will cause kernel oopses and/or
passing to the kernel mem=850M in lilo at boot will be enough.
> memory corruption :-( > > If you do not have >890MB of memory, then reason for your memory corruption > is still unknown to me. > Best regards, > Petr Vandrovec > vandrove@vc.cvut.cz > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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