OT: Re: note to vmware users

Mon Apr 11 03:38:28 UTC 2005

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:26 -0500, Gene C. wrote:
> On a FC4T1 systems updated to the latest kernel (2.6.11-1.1231_FC4) (and  
> x86_64 system in my case) with VMware workstation 5 RC3 (12888), trying to 
> configure/run vmware host stuff will cause a kernel panic!
> 
> It seems to work OK with the 2.6.11-1.1226_FC4 kernel.

  Confirmed here on i686 kernel with VMware Workstation 5 GA (build
13124), but there is a new patch at
http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update90.tar.gz
that fixes the problem.

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