From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267982AbUBRUGW (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:06:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267983AbUBRUGW (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:06:22 -0500 Received: from vana.vc.cvut.cz ([147.32.240.58]:12160 "EHLO vana.vc.cvut.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267982AbUBRUGU (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:06:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:06:07 +0100 From: Petr Vandrovec To: Alexander Hoogerhuis Cc: Zoltan NAGY , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: v2.6 in vmware? Message-ID: <20040218200607.GA12982@vana.vc.cvut.cz> References: <10ADD433537@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> <8765e4fayx.fsf@lapper.ihatent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8765e4fayx.fsf@lapper.ihatent.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:23:34PM +0100, Alexander Hoogerhuis wrote: > "Petr Vandrovec" writes: > > > On 18 Feb 04 at 14:37, Zoltan NAGY wrote: > > > I've been trying to get 2.6.x working in vmware4, but it drops some > > > oopses during init... I cannot provide details, but I'm sure that it > > > does not just me who are having problems with it.. > > > > Definitely you are... I do not know about any problems with running > > 2.6.x as a guest under VMware. > > > > There was something about sysenter support or something in that > general direction; I had Zwane Mwaikambo send me a patch that worked > around this for pre 4.0.5 vmware, but never got around to test it as I > upgraded the vmware software. I have all reasons to believe that this is fixed in 4.0.5. It is definitely fixed in 4.5. Best regards, Petr Vandrovec