From: "Hong-Gunn Chew" <hgchewML@optusnet.com.au>
To: "'Linux kernel mailing list'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: File corruption when running VMware.
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:54:07 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000201c1eb3f$7e0a8450$241d7f81@hgclaptop> (raw)
I have a repeatable problem when running VMware workstation 3.00 and
3.01. The cause is still unknown, and could be VMware itself, the
hardware or the kernel.
When running VMware, a file read from disk can be corrupted and will
stay corrupted in memory in the disk cache. It can be reproduced by
checking the md5sum of a large file (>200MB), with different results
each time when VMware is running.
Further tests shows the corruption occurs only at the 3rd byte of a
16-byte block, and only the LSB is affected.
Load on the machine is minimal and VMware is at the BIOS setup screen.
Has anyone encountered this problem before? I can provide any
additional information that might be useful.
Cheers,
Hong-Gunn
System configuration:
CPU: P4 2.0A 2.0GHz
RAM: 4x256MB RDRAM PC800
MB: ASUS P4-TE firmware:1005
Intel i850
Disk: IBM Deskstar 120GXP 80GB
Graphics: ATI 7500 OEM
Distri: RedHat 7.2
Kernel: 2.4.18
X: Xfree 4.2
glibc: 2.2.4-19.3
next reply other threads:[~2002-04-24 3:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-24 3:24 Hong-Gunn Chew [this message]
2002-04-24 5:01 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-24 10:08 Petr Vandrovec
2002-04-26 15:30 Petr Vandrovec
2002-04-26 16:14 ` Hong-Gunn Chew
2002-04-26 23:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-26 23:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-27 0:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-27 15:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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