From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268681AbUHTTeK (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:34:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268667AbUHTTbf (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:31:35 -0400 Received: from herkules.viasys.com ([194.100.28.129]:14525 "HELO mail.viasys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268662AbUHTTaf (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:30:35 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:30:24 +0300 From: Ville Herva To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andrew Morton , petr@vandrovec.name, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm2 breaks vmware Message-ID: <20040820193024.GL23741@viasys.com> Reply-To: vherva@viasys.com References: <20040820104230.GH23741@viasys.com> <20040820035142.3bcdb1cb.akpm@osdl.org> <20040820131825.GI23741@viasys.com> <20040820144304.GF8307@viasys.com> <20040820151621.GJ23741@viasys.com> <20040820114518.49a65b69.akpm@osdl.org> <20040820184932.GA11789@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040820184932.GA11789@devserv.devel.redhat.com> 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 Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 08:49:33PM +0200, you [Arjan van de Ven] wrote: > > > > > > Ok, 2.6.8.1-mm2 minus dev-mem-restriction-patch.patch fixes the "cannot > > > allocate memory" problem. > > > > Thanks for working that out. > > > > Strange. I'd have assumed that the Fedora kernels include that patch. > > we do. Maybe you have an older (rare) vmware version ??? Yes, VMwareWorkstation-3.2.0-2230. Looks like I'll need to break my piggy bank and consider upgrading. Commercial software... ;@) -- v -- v@iki.fi