Is XEN kernel an answer to VMWare crash?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Jarkko Elfving wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've tried to compile VMWare to FC4 in kernel 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 but it
> stalls everything while it tries to start up networking. X does not get
> any actions or commands, keyboard and mouse are not working - cold boot
> is the only way get it back in to life and VMWare module must be skip
> manually on boot up (and then of course remove from starting service
> list).
>
> Now I've read little about XEN kernels and did not get the point of it.
> I figure out that XEN is some kind of Virtual Machine kernel itself (I
> mean, I can boot in other OS within using Linux - or something like
> that). Or am I right at all?
>
> I was thinking would the XEN kernel be the answer to VMWare crash?

I doubt it.

>
> Please help me on this...

Have you applied the latest vmware-any-any-update patch from 
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/?

>
> Regards,
> Jarkko Elfving
>
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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