Re: [SLE] VMware and kernel 2.4.21-166 (was kernel recompile)

From: plain (kanenas_at_hawaii.rr.com)
Date: 01/06/04

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    imo 9.0 is still not ready for prime time regarding vmware. or the other way
    around. i guess i will stay with 8.2 /vm 4.05 a bit longer.
    d.
    On Tuesday 06 January 2004 05:38, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
    > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 09:45, Gary Gapinski wrote:
    > > On Monday 05 January 2004 19:46, Ken Schneider wrote:
    > > > And speaking of a VMware install..
    > > >
    > > > Why were the VMware modules left -out- of the .166 kernel update?!
    > > >
    > > > The km_vmware piece of shit doesn't work and neither does the module
    > > > complilation from VMware themselves. Going back to the .144 kernel
    > > > till 2.6 becomes stable.
    > >
    > > What problems are you encountering?
    > >
    > > I've been running VMware-gsx-2.5.1-5336 on 2.4.21-166-smp4G (for a
    > > whopping 30 minutes or so) with no problems.
    > >
    > > I did find that the vmware-config.pl compiled _and_ installed vmmon and
    > > vmnet modules, so I'm not using any pre-supplied ones. The -99 and -144
    > > kernel versions included these modules, and I thought I had used the
    > > SuSE-supplied ones by telling the vmware-config.pl script to not install
    > > its own, but I was not presented with that option with the -166 kernel
    > > installed.
    >
    > The -166 kernel did not come with pre-compiled modules hence you would
    > not get a prompt to overwrite files that do not exist.
    >
    > I have only performed the update at home and when I use vmware-config to
    > create the modules I get a kernel oops when starting vmware (4.0.5
    > workstation on 9.0 pro). If I try to use the km_vmware addon to create
    > the modules vmware will not start as it cannot load all of the modules.
    >
    > --
    > Ken Schneider
    > unix user since 1989
    > linux user since 1994
    > SuSE user since 1998 (5.2) 

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