Re: Kernel 2.2.11 crash...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:27:25 +0100 (BST)


> VMWARE's kernel modules come WITH the source code, and have done
> so from day one. I just wanted to make this out in the open so
> that people don't start bashing them over it.

Those modules allow vmware itself to do a lot of clever unsafe things
behind the kernels back. So we don't have a good way to track what
vmware does. We also get a lot of vmware caused crash reports. Even with
the modules for those small bits it is impossible for anyone but the vmware
people to debug such a crash.

All I ask people to do is to not load vmware from a boot up (system or
modules) and duplicate the crash. Then I can debug it

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