ongoing quest for vmware on Fedora Core 1 with 2.6.1 kernel

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 20:26, Tony Grant wrote:

> I can confirm that not even the root user can run vmware with 2.6.1x
> kernel. My kernel was built from the 2.6.1-1.37 SRC rpm.

I'm running VMware 4.5.0 build-7174 on 2.6.2 with no problems at all,
with an exception: I had to modify the sources for the vmmon kernel
module to remove the _exit(1) syscall which is totally absurd for a
module and causes errors when compiling on -mm kernels.

> Is this a Fedora problem or a vmware problem?

What is your problem exactly?