From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
To: Dave McCracken <dmc@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Binary only module overview
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:52:13 MET-1 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46458FB0D75@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> (raw)
On 24 Sep 01 at 12:24, Dave McCracken wrote:
> >> IIRC, vmware includes one or more kernel modules.
> >>
> >> Rasmus
> >>
> > Yes, but the modules are not binary-only.
> > The sourcecode is in the package, although it is not GPL.
>
> I believe they only provide source for an interface layer that can be
> compiled against a specific version of the kernel. I think the core
> drivers are binary only.
VMnet and VMppuser drivers are completely standalone and can work
without VMware. You can persuade VMmon module to load and execute
arbitrary code on kernel level - it just provides virtual machine
environment (switches CPU context), but as it even does not link to
anything else, I do not see any problem here. DRI drivers also allows
you to smash arbitrary piece of memory...
As for license on these modules - I was under impression that they are
under GPL, but I'll ask VMware for clarification.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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2001-09-24 19:52 Petr Vandrovec [this message]
2001-09-24 18:03 ` Binary only module overview Dave McCracken
2001-09-24 18:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2001-09-26 23:46 ` Greg KH
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2001-09-29 2:05 ` jmjones
2001-09-29 3:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-29 3:57 ` jmjones
2001-09-29 14:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 22:12 ` Crispin Cowan
2001-09-26 16:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-24 16:40 Arjan van de Ven
2001-09-24 16:53 ` Rasmus Bøg Hansen
2001-09-24 16:58 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-09-24 17:02 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2001-09-24 17:08 ` Anders Peter Fugmann
2001-09-24 17:24 ` Dave McCracken
2001-09-24 23:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-24 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-24 17:15 ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-09-24 17:16 ` Rick Haines
2001-09-24 17:17 ` Greg KH
2001-09-24 20:40 ` Casey Schaufler
2001-09-24 23:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-25 16:22 ` Casey Schaufler
2001-09-24 17:35 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-24 20:06 ` Michael Leun
2001-09-24 21:18 ` Nerijus Baliunas
2001-09-24 22:57 ` Brian Strand
2001-09-25 15:44 ` Greg KH
2001-09-25 19:09 ` Mark Zealey
2001-09-25 19:24 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-09-25 20:42 ` Greg KH
2001-09-25 21:09 ` Roberto Nibali
2001-09-25 21:16 ` Greg KH
2001-09-25 22:14 ` Roberto Nibali
2001-09-25 22:15 ` Greg KH
2001-09-25 22:39 ` Roberto Nibali
2001-09-25 22:40 ` Greg KH
2001-09-26 16:38 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-25 16:43 ` Fabbione
2001-09-28 2:38 ` Edward S. Marshall
2001-09-25 23:24 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-09-28 14:09 ` Daniel Caujolle-Bert
2001-09-28 14:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-09-28 14:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-28 14:52 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-09-29 9:04 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-09-28 19:44 ` Daniel Caujolle-Bert
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