From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:12:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:12:03 -0400 Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com ([207.69.200.110]:14626 "EHLO smtp6.mindspring.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:11:50 -0400 Message-ID: <006001c12583$70808960$fe01a8c0@federationspace.org> From: "Tom Sightler" To: "Ihar Filipau" , "lkml" In-Reply-To: <3B7A4659.9B40682C@iph.to> Subject: Re: status of VMware on 2.4? Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:11:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Hello All! > > Could anyone say something good about VMware support of 2.4 kernel. > I heard about problems with earlier 2.4 kernels. > > Any success stories? I've been using VMware on both a Dell Inspiron 5000 and ,within the last year, a 5000e on Linux kernels since the 2.3.99 kernels and it has worked very well. The earlier system was running Redhat 6.2, and the 5000e has run RH 7.0, 7.1, and most recently the roswell beta. VMware does require some patches to thier modules to make them compile with recent 2.4.x kernels (I think it broke around 2.4.7). I don't have the URL handy but it's in the lkml archives (that's where I found them when I recently upgraded to 2.4.8-ac1). Anyway, I've used this machine daily for over a year now, I spend about 50% of my time in the VM running Windows 2000 Pro for compatibility with applications at work. It's been rock solid for me, the last serious problem I had was trying to get the modem to work when, for some reason, Windows 2000 lost the settings for serial ports and on the next reboot decided I had 8 serial ports. Still, this was minor, and I did get that resolved as well. Later, Tom