anyone using Vmware with a recent 2.6.12 kernel?

Federico Voges ftc
Sun Aug 14 18:22:01 PDT 2005


Net Llama! wrote:

> On 08/14/2005 02:19 PM, Net Llama! wrote:
>
>> Anyone using Vmware Workstation 5 with a recent 2.6.12 kernel (like 
>> 2.6.12.4)?
>>
>> I've been running it for a long time with 2.6.11, but I upgraded to 
>> 2.6.12.4 (self-compiled on FC4) today, and now when I run the 
>> mandatory vmware-config.pl script, it Oops when building the 
>> vmnet-bridge module, and it goes downhill from there.
>>
>
> Nevermind, figured it out.  I needed the latest vmware-any-any-update 
> tarball from
> http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/?M=D


Hmmmm... It looks like something changed in 2.6.12.x.... I've already 
heard on many problems compiling external network drivers for 2.6.12 and 
they compile perfectly with older 2.6 kernels.

Cheers.

-- 
Federico Voges.

Running: Mac OS X 10.4.2 (build 8C46)
Kernel:  8.2.0 Power Macintosh
Procesor: PowerPC G4 @ 1.67GHz
Uptime:   0:56  up 2 days, 10:26, 2 users, load averages: 1.26 1.08 0.73


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