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From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
To: Frank de Lange <lkml-frank@unternet.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hang with 2.4.14 & vmware 3.0.x, anyone else seen this?
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 21:08:10 MET-1	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89EA9194B5B@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> (raw)

On  8 Nov 01 at 17:39, Frank de Lange wrote:
> 
> It seems 2.4.14 and vmware 3.0.x don't like eachother very much on my SMP (yeah
> Abit, yeah yeah I know) box. I've seen several hangs (nothing logged, no
> warning, no nothing) using this combination. The same box, running the same
> vmware but 2.4.13-ac instead does not complain...

Yeah. Use Alan's kernels with VMware. These are one which I daily tests
and for which I can say that they works (== do not use VMware with
2.4.13-ac8, vmmon will not restore correct %cr2 value under some
conditions, use -ac7 until it is clear whether non-standard %cr2 usage 
is going to stay or not).

> Sooooo.... there seems to be something going on there. As vmware loads its own
> kernel modules (licensed under who knows what? The source is available and
> hackable), it could be a bug in those modules. Then again, as it does not occur
> on the -ac series, it could be in the kernel as well. As there's nothing to be
> seen in the logs (it just freezes solid), there's nothing more to report
> currently...

Is it really solid freeze (what does alt-sysrq-s,u,s,b)? 
                                            Thanks,
                                                Petr Vandrovec
                                                vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
                                                

             reply	other threads:[~2001-11-08 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-08 21:08 Petr Vandrovec [this message]
2001-11-08 20:36 ` hang with 2.4.14 & vmware 3.0.x, anyone else seen this? Frank de Lange
2001-11-08 23:19 ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-08 23:34 Petr Vandrovec
2001-11-08 22:39 ` Frank de Lange
2001-11-09 13:58   ` Alessandro Suardi
2001-11-09 19:26   ` Todd M. Roy
2001-11-08 22:24 Petr Vandrovec
2001-11-08 21:35 ` Frank de Lange
2001-11-08 16:39 Frank de Lange

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