Re: vmware in Linux 2.6

Jan Rychter
2003-09-26T19:56:15Z

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>>>>> "Petr" == Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>:
Petr> 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.

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

Does VMware roll these changes back in? This isn't cheap software, I
feel they should care for Linux users a bit more.

For those who run VMware on notebooks with ACPI, another patch is
necessary, otherwise ACPI C-states handling doesn't notice VMware and as
a result the guest system is unbearably slow.

--J.

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