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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
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Subject: Re: vmware2 patch for -CURRENT
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Andrew Gallatin writes:
| o - linux-base 8.x is too new to run vmware2.  Due to a change in the
| nice ABI in glibc, if you run vmware2 with newer libs, it will
| crash, complaining that AIO is not implemented.   This has nothing to
| do with your patch, but I wanted to get it into the archives, as it
| took me an hour or two of running strings on the linux libc and
| Googling before I pulled the /compat/linux/lib directory from an old
| 4.x with linux_base-6.1 installed.

Try to run vmware-any-any-update42 to patch the vmware binary.

A Google search can find it or a newer version.

Doug A.