Update: VMware with FC2T1

Steve Ellis steve.ellis at sympatico.ca
Wed Mar 10 22:28:15 UTC 2004


Hi Ben

I had the same problem I just rem'd out the return command and also have
a working vmware now. Not sure how safe it is to do that but it
works. :-)

Steve

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 13:07 -0400, Ben Steeves wrote:
> 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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