From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261724AbUHVVTN (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:19:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264704AbUHVVTN (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:19:13 -0400 Received: from herkules.viasys.com ([194.100.28.129]:53715 "HELO mail.viasys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261724AbUHVVTJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:19:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:19:03 +0300 From: Ville Herva To: Petr Vandrovec Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm2 breaks vmware Message-ID: <20040822211903.GO23741@viasys.com> Reply-To: vherva@viasys.com References: <20040820035142.3bcdb1cb.akpm@osdl.org> <20040820131825.GI23741@viasys.com> <20040820144304.GF8307@viasys.com> <20040820151621.GJ23741@viasys.com> <20040820114518.49a65b69.akpm@osdl.org> <20040821062927.GM23741@viasys.com> <20040821134918.GA1585@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20040821190027.GQ3024@viasys.com> <20040821190730.GA25932@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20040822143112.GB24092@vana.vc.cvut.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040822143112.GB24092@vana.vc.cvut.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: Linux herkules.viasys.com 2.4.27 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 04:31:12PM +0200, you [Petr Vandrovec] wrote: > > During weekend I was able to create binary patch for VMware Workstation > 3.2.1 (patch available at > http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update82.tar.gz) > which turns that messy ioctl & /dev/mem mmap to simpler, safer and better > /dev/vmmon mmap (and unmap + ioctl to simple unmap) (as used by > WS4+/GSX3+). After that WS 3.2.1 works on your 2.6.8.1-mm3 without > problems (after applying two patches I'm sending you separately to get > -mm3 to work at all on my notebook). Incredible. I was sure I was out of look with the aged vmware 3.2.0, and now suddenly there is patch for both the kernel and the application :). > Ville, please try applying vmware-any-any-update82.tar.gz. During > application it must say that it found 'VMware Workstation 3.2.1-build > 2242'. If it will say that it found build-2230 to 2242, new binary > pattern was not recognized and I'll need your vmware binary, as I did not > find build 2230 in my archive. Or you can upgrade to the build 2242. I didn't even realize 2242 had been released ;). (As I said, I've lately been using vmware less and less.) I just upgraded to 2242 + any2any82 and it works fine (*). I'm still using the 2.6.8.1-mm2 with the updated dev-mem restriction patch. I'll retest this as soon as I get to upgrade my kernel again to something that doesn't contain Arjan's new dev-mem patch. I'll let you know. *) Apart from that even 3.2.1 2242 does not fix the altgr key that does not seem to work with 2.6 new input system. I presume the new input layer is the reason; I do know altgr used to work with 2.4 host kernel and winxp guest. -- v -- v@iki.fi