From: mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)
To: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vmware on linux 2.6.4
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:30:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xu10n22ar.fsf@kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403171119.48026@WOLK> (Marc-Christian Petersen's message of "Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:19:48 +0100")
Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de> writes:
> On Wednesday 17 March 2004 00:39, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>
> Hi Mans,
>
>> I tried to build the vmware modules for kernel 2.6.4 and got this oops
>> when loading vmmon.o:
>> vmmon: no version magic, tainting kernel.
>> vmmon: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
>> Suggestions welcome.
>
> what vmware version do you use? Please make sure you've updated to latest
> any-any update from (1.)
I installed vmware 4.5.1, and at first I got an oops from insmod
again. Then I build the modules manually instead of letting the
configure script do it, and now it's up and running.
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-17 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-16 23:39 Måns Rullgård
2004-03-17 10:19 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-03-17 10:30 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2004-03-17 16:19 ` Mark Watts
2004-03-17 15:48 Petr Vandrovec
2004-03-17 16:43 ` Mark Watts
2004-03-17 16:08 Petr Vandrovec
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