Re: vmware on linux 2.6.4

From: Måns Rullgård
Date: Wed Mar 17 2004 - 05:32:58 EST


Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxx
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