Re: Is anyone using vmware 4.5 with 2.6.9-rc2-mm1?

[Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>]

Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> On Sep 19, 2004, at 17:14, Norberto Bensa wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> This is what vmware is saying:
>>
>>     "Could not mmap 139264 bytes of memory from file offset 0 at (nil):
>>     Operation not permitted. Failed to allocate shared memory."
>>
>>
>> Vmware works fine with 2.6.9-rc1-mm5.
>
>
> It's woking fine for me... I'm using VMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848 
> running on top of kernel-2.6.9-rc2-mm1-VP-S1 and Fedora Core RawHide 
> with no apparent problems (i.e. dmesg shows no errors) and total 
> functionality.
>
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Have you accidentally turned down the maximum sized shared memory 
segment on your system, making an allocation of shared memory of that 
size impossible? (assuming the 2.6 kernel has the same tunable that the 
2.4 series had for shared memory).
Neil

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