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SubjectRe: v2.6 in vmware?
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:23:34PM +0100, Alexander Hoogerhuis wrote:
> > "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz> writes:
> >
> > > On 18 Feb 04 at 14:37, Zoltan NAGY wrote:
> > > > I've been trying to get 2.6.x working in vmware4, but it drops some
> > > > oopses during init... I cannot provide details, but I'm sure that it
> > > > does not just me who are having problems with it..
> > >
> > > Definitely you are... I do not know about any problems with running
> > > 2.6.x as a guest under VMware.
> > >
> >
> > There was something about sysenter support or something in that
> > general direction; I had Zwane Mwaikambo send me a patch that worked
> > around this for pre 4.0.5 vmware, but never got around to test it as I
> > upgraded the vmware software.
>
> I have all reasons to believe that this is fixed in 4.0.5. It is definitely
> fixed in 4.5.

Yes that sysenter patch is not required to run Linux 2.6 as a guest in
VMWare 4.05 (verified on build 6030)

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