Messages in this thread | | | From | "Petr Vandrovec" <> | Date | Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:45:42 +0200 | Subject | Re: vmware in Linux 2.6 |
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On 26 Sep 03 at 12:50, Mons Rullgord wrote: > "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz> writes: > > >> Is it possible to use vmware with Linux 2.6? The kernel modules > >> (obviously) fail to compile. > > > > Do you know Google?... And best for such type of questions are newsgroups > > at news.vmware.com, especially one named vmware.for-linux.experimental. > > I already tried google. It only turned up a solution that involved > editing something in the vmnet module. In my case, the vmmon module > failed rather miserably, and I couldn't find anything about that.
Failed rather miserably == no 'prev' member in linuxState.misc? Then it is fixed in vmware-any-any-update40...
And except that this patch makes thing compilable, it also makes driver a bit friendlier to the MM subsystem, it allows you to use VMware on 4G/4G host, and it properly handles bridged networking on adapters using hardware (or pseudohardware...) Tx checksumming (although only for IPv4 due to features of dev_queue_xmit_nit). Petr Vandrovec
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