Re: v2.6 in vmware?

Re: v2.6 in vmware?

[Petr Vandrovec]

On 18 Feb 04 at 14:37, Zoltan NAGY wrote:
> I've been trying to get 2.6.x working in vmware4, but it drops some
> oopses during init... I cannot provide details, but I'm sure that it
> does not just me who are having problems with it..

Definitely you are... I do not know about any problems with running
2.6.x as a guest under VMware. 

Which VMware version you use? If you are using anything older than 
WS4.0.5 then upgrade, preferrably to 4.5RC3.
                                                Petr Vandrovec
                                                

Re: v2.6 in vmware?

[Alexander Hoogerhuis]

"Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz> writes:

> On 18 Feb 04 at 14:37, Zoltan NAGY wrote:
> > I've been trying to get 2.6.x working in vmware4, but it drops some
> > oopses during init... I cannot provide details, but I'm sure that it
> > does not just me who are having problems with it..
> 
> Definitely you are... I do not know about any problems with running
> 2.6.x as a guest under VMware. 
> 

There was something about sysenter support or something in that
general direction; I had Zwane Mwaikambo send me a patch that worked
around this for pre 4.0.5 vmware, but never got around to test it as I
upgraded the vmware software.

Grep the archives for "[PATCH][2.5] VMWare doesn't like sysenter" and
"2.6.0 under vmware ?", and look here:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0401.0/1254.html

mvh,
A

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Re: v2.6 in vmware?

[Petr Vandrovec]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:23:34PM +0100, Alexander Hoogerhuis wrote:
> "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz> writes:
> 
> > On 18 Feb 04 at 14:37, Zoltan NAGY wrote:
> > > I've been trying to get 2.6.x working in vmware4, but it drops some
> > > oopses during init... I cannot provide details, but I'm sure that it
> > > does not just me who are having problems with it..
> > 
> > Definitely you are... I do not know about any problems with running
> > 2.6.x as a guest under VMware. 
> > 
> 
> There was something about sysenter support or something in that
> general direction; I had Zwane Mwaikambo send me a patch that worked
> around this for pre 4.0.5 vmware, but never got around to test it as I
> upgraded the vmware software.

I have all reasons to believe that this is fixed in 4.0.5. It is definitely
fixed in 4.5.
					Best regards,
						Petr Vandrovec

Re: v2.6 in vmware?

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:23:34PM +0100, Alexander Hoogerhuis wrote:
> > "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz> writes:
> >
> > > On 18 Feb 04 at 14:37, Zoltan NAGY wrote:
> > > > I've been trying to get 2.6.x working in vmware4, but it drops some
> > > > oopses during init... I cannot provide details, but I'm sure that it
> > > > does not just me who are having problems with it..
> > >
> > > Definitely you are... I do not know about any problems with running
> > > 2.6.x as a guest under VMware.
> > >
> >
> > There was something about sysenter support or something in that
> > general direction; I had Zwane Mwaikambo send me a patch that worked
> > around this for pre 4.0.5 vmware, but never got around to test it as I
> > upgraded the vmware software.
>
> I have all reasons to believe that this is fixed in 4.0.5. It is definitely
> fixed in 4.5.

Yes that sysenter patch is not required to run Linux 2.6 as a guest in
VMWare 4.05 (verified on build 6030)

Re[]: v2.6 in vmware?

[Zoltan NAGY]

Hello Petr,

Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 9:06:07 PM, you wrote:
PV> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:23:34PM +0100, Alexander Hoogerhuis wrote:
>> "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz> writes:
>> 
>> > On 18 Feb 04 at 14:37, Zoltan NAGY wrote:
>> > > I've been trying to get 2.6.x working in vmware4, but it drops some
>> > > oopses during init... I cannot provide details, but I'm sure that it
>> > > does not just me who are having problems with it..
>> > 
>> > Definitely you are... I do not know about any problems with running
>> > 2.6.x as a guest under VMware. 
>> > 
>> 
>> There was something about sysenter support or something in that
>> general direction; I had Zwane Mwaikambo send me a patch that worked
>> around this for pre 4.0.5 vmware, but never got around to test it as I
>> upgraded the vmware software.

> I have all reasons to believe that this is fixed in 4.0.5. It is definitely
> fixed in 4.5.

It is not working with 4.0.5. But anyway, with 4.5 it works flawlessly :)

Regards,

--
Zoltan NAGY,
Network Administrator