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
                                                

v2.6 in vmware?

[Zoltan NAGY]

Hi!

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..

Regards,

--
Zoltan NAGY,
Network Administrator

Re: v2.6 in vmware?

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:37:25PM +0100, Zoltan NAGY wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 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..

hmm, works perfectly with QEMU here ... so maybe 
a VMware issue?

best,
Herbert

> Regards,
> 
> --
> Zoltan NAGY,
> Network Administrator
> 
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Re: v2.6 in vmware?

[Eric]

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 7:37 am, Zoltan NAGY wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 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..

	Right now I am using Vmware 4.something in kernel 2.6.2-rc3 and will upgrade 
to 2.6.3 and im pretty sure it will work. Make sure you use the appropriate 
install script. Someone has published their own patches to make VMware more 
compatible w/ 2.6.
	Do a google for vmware-any-any-update49.tar.gz or updateXX where XX might be 
a newer version. I have not had any oopses with this package. The only 
problem I have is some older versions of the update package wouldnt compile. 
Perhaps you are insmodding a module built for 2.4 and crashing the kernel?

> Regards,
>
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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)