Re: [SLE] 192 Kernel Breaks VMware?

From: Alex Angerhofer (alex_at_chem.ufl.edu)
Date: 02/23/04

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    Same problem here. I haven't had the time to dig deeper into it at this
    point, though, and suspect that there will be a work-around for it
    somehow. If someone has found a solution already, I'd of course appreciate
    hearing about it, too.

    Cheers, Alex.

    On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, L. Mark Stone wrote:

    > We know that VMware doesn't (yet?) support SuSE 9.0, but we had no
    > problem running VMware Workstation 4.0 in 9.0--until the latest 192
    > kernel.
    >
    > In the past, we used to able to update the vmware kernel modules after
    > updating each kernel (and sources), and they would load fine.
    >
    > We did this by shutting down vmware and then going into the
    > /usr/src/linux-2.4.xxx directory, run make cloneconfig and then make
    > depp && make clean. (We already installed the km_vmware package). Next,
    > we'd rebuild the vmware modules from the /usr/src/kernel-modules/vmware
    > directory by rnning make -f Makefile.module and then running make -f
    > Makefile.module install.
    >
    > But when we go to restart the vmware services, everything now fails to
    > load.
    >
    > Any ideas? Thanks!
    > Mark
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