Re: vmware on linux 2.6.4

From: Mark Watts
Date: Wed Mar 17 2004 - 11:30:51 EST


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> 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.)

What does this update actually do?

I'm currently running VMWare 4.5.1 on mandrake 10.0 Community with their 2.6.3
kernel and VMWare is working just fine. Any compilation of modules was all
performed by vmware-install.pl

Cheers.

Mark


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Mark Watts
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ TIM
St Andrews Road, Malvern
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