Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Hans-Peter Jansen <> | Subject | VMware-workstation-4.5.1 on linux-2.6.4-x86_64 host fails on virtual ethernet setup | Date | Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:33:46 +0100 |
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[CCing LKML in order to give other people, which may suffer from this in the future something to google for ;-)]
Hi Petr,
I'm suffering from a strange problem here. I tried to reach you on vmware.for-linux.experimental without success (got a trollish answer only).
Here it is: I'm trying to get VMware-workstation-4.5.1-7568.i386.rpm working on SuSE 9.1b1, based on linux-2.6.4-x86_64. Thanks to some googling, I found related hints from you and your vmware-any-any-update54, which got me around the compile issues in vmmon with this patch:
--- vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c.orig 2004-03-21 20:53:35.042565778 +0100 +++ vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c 2004-03-21 20:53:40.284442570 +0100 @@ -516,13 +516,13 @@ ClearNXBit(VA vaddr) { pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset_k(vaddr); - pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset(pgd, vaddr); + pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset_map(pgd, vaddr); pte_t *pte; if (pmd_val(*pmd) & _PAGE_PSE) { pte = (pte_t*)pmd; } else { - pte = pte_offset(pmd, vaddr); + pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, vaddr); } if (pte_val(*pte) & _PAGE_NX) { pte_val(*pte) &= ~_PAGE_NX;
vmware-config.pl and /etc/init.d/vmware both fail at the same point, setting up virtual networking [the latter with VMWARE_DEBUG=yes]:
Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor done Virtual ethernet done Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0cd /usr/bin && /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid /dev/vmnet0 eth0 eth0: Not a valid Ethernet interface failed
This triggers these syslog messages:
Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165 Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: vmnet: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel. Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 4871 (vmnet-bridge) Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory. Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: ioctl32(vmnet-bridge:4871): Unknown cmd fd(5) cmd(00008941){00} arg(ffffd268) on /dev/vmnet0 Replacing vmnet.tar with yours suffers from the same problem.
stracing vmnet-bridge command: execve("/usr/bin/vmnet-bridge", ["vmnet-bridge", "-d", "/var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid", "/dev/vmnet0", "eth0"], [/* 72 vars */]) = 0 [ Process PID=4910 runs in 32 bit mode. ] eth0: Not a valid Ethernet interface syslog: Mar 22 21:51:40 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 4910 (vmnet-bridge) Mar 22 21:51:40 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened Mar 22 21:51:40 tyrex kernel: ioctl32(vmnet-bridge:4910): Unknown cmd fd(5) cmd(00008941){00} arg(ffffd288) on /dev/vmnet0 Surely, eth0 is up and running (I highly depend on a working lan here ;-)
Obviously it's some problem with i386 <-> x86_64 interfacing.
Any ideas, what to try next?
TIA, Pete
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