Re: vmware in Linux 2.6

Petr Vandrovec
2003-09-26T12:46:05Z

On 26 Sep 03 at 12:50, Mons Rullgord wrote:
> "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz> writes:
>
> >> Is it possible to use vmware with Linux 2.6? The kernel modules
> >> (obviously) fail to compile.
> >
> > Do you know Google?... And best for such type of questions are newsgroups
> > at news.vmware.com, especially one named vmware.for-linux.experimental.
>
> I already tried google. It only turned up a solution that involved
> editing something in the vmnet module. In my case, the vmmon module
> failed rather miserably, and I couldn't find anything about that.

Failed rather miserably == no 'prev' member in linuxState.misc? Then
it is fixed in vmware-any-any-update40...

And except that this patch makes thing compilable, it also makes driver
a bit friendlier to the MM subsystem, it allows you to use VMware on
4G/4G host, and it properly handles bridged networking on adapters using
hardware (or pseudohardware...) Tx checksumming (although only for IPv4
due to features of dev_queue_xmit_nit).
Petr Vandrovec