Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:58:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org Cc: julian@elischer.org Subject: Re: fixing Vmware 2 port for 5.x and 6.x.. kmem _alloc_pageable Message-ID: <200503050058.j250wKB9021637@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <20050305004343.GA1108@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net>
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Sean Welch writes: | >vmware/linux has a bug. Linux libs changed the call breaking | >vmware. There are source programs to patch the vmware binaries. | >Do a google search for vmware-any-any-update, build and run against | >you vmware bin. | | Would you please elaborate? I have downloaded the aforementioned | patch but have been unable to get it to do anything useful. Namely, | the thing expects to be run under linux and doesn't get very far: | | # ./runme.pl | Unable to open the installer database /etc/vmware/locations in | read-mode. | | Execution aborted. | | What would you recommend? Skip the extra bits and just go for the code. make update cp <vmware bin location> vmware.orig ./update <vmware bin location> Then it should be good to go. Doug A.
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