Update: VMware with FC2T1
Ben Steeves
bcs at metacon.ca
Wed Mar 10 17:07:30 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 00:23, Efthym wrote:
> No problems on this side. Just installed .246 , and updated from
> any-any-update51 to update53. Compiled the modules and everything works. I
> only have the kernel-source rpm for version 246.
> I also checked and both /usr/src/linux-XXX/include/linux/version.h and
> /lib/modules/XXX/build/include/linux/version.h are there.
>
> On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:29:22 -0400, Ben Steeves <bcs at metacon.ca> wrote:
>
> > Anyone have any luck getting VMware 4 to work against FC2 Test 1? I
> > downloaded and ran vmware-any-any-update53.tar.gz as suggested in
> > numerous places, and I do have kernel-source installed (I'm running the
> > latest dev kernel, kernel-2.6.3-2.1.246).
I got the modules to compile (finally!) by hacking vmware-config.pl not
to fail out if the page_offset size was compared wrong. I think the
problem lies in asm/page.h, which defines different page sizes based on
whether or not you configure your kernel with the
CONFIG_X86_4G_VM_LAYOUT switch on or off. The kernel-2.6.3-2.1.246
package has it turned on.
VMWare was picking up a __PAGE_OFFSET value of 0x02000000 but my system
was reporting 0xc0000000. I just hacked vmware-config.pl not to fail
when the comparison didn't match.
The problem is probably in the way vmware-config.pl checks for the
running kernel's page size. Fixing this *correctly* is beyond my meagre
abilities.
But I have VMware running now, so I'm happy enough. I am curious as to
why I had this problem and others aren't, though.
Ben
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