From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267699AbUBRUdl (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:33:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268061AbUBRUdl (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:33:41 -0500 Received: from dragnfire.mtl.istop.com ([66.11.160.179]:37572 "EHLO dsl.commfireservices.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267699AbUBRUdh (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:33:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:33:03 -0500 (EST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: Petr Vandrovec Cc: Alexander Hoogerhuis , Zoltan NAGY , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: v2.6 in vmware? In-Reply-To: <20040218200607.GA12982@vana.vc.cvut.cz> Message-ID: References: <10ADD433537@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> <8765e4fayx.fsf@lapper.ihatent.com> <20040218200607.GA12982@vana.vc.cvut.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > 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. Yes that sysenter patch is not required to run Linux 2.6 as a guest in VMWare 4.05 (verified on build 6030)