From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
To: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vmware and 2.5 kernels ?
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:15:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <144DEE3C7076@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> (raw)
On 12 Mar 02 at 15:04, John Covici wrote:
> Hi. I am trying to get the vmware modules to compile with the 2.5
> kernel (2.5.6-pre2). I replaced the malloc.h references with slab.h as
> there is no longer a malloc.h, but I am still getting errors with
> current->fd structures.
Get patches from usual place
(ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/, update8 is currently latest). You
must have VMware 3.0, as I do not (and nobody else does AFAIK) support
VMware 2.0 on 2.5.x kernels - you need to patch VMware binary to put
sysinfo() call into it, instead of parsing /proc/meminfo contents, which
changed before 2.5.1 (yes, they did not learn from 2.3.24 /proc/meminfo
lesson :-( ) and I have no interest in fixing it in old version.
VMware 3.1 will work on 2.5.6. I have no idea about future kernels, as
always...
If you are using VMware on oficially unsupported kernels, please
visit nntp://news.vmware.com/vmware.for-linux.experimental, you'll find
couple of your possible questions answered there.
And as always - there is no warranty, and I have no idea whether it is
legal to use my patch in the U.S.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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2002-03-13 11:15 Petr Vandrovec [this message]
2002-03-13 15:06 ` vmware and 2.5 kernels ? John Covici
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2002-03-13 15:07 Petr Vandrovec
2002-03-12 20:04 John Covici
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