Re: Massive errors with VMWARE and 2.2.10-andrea-VM8

Kurt Garloff (garloff@suse.de)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:24:41 +0200


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On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 03:27:33PM -0400, Nicholas J. Leon wrote:
> Greetings folks! I just loaded up VMWARE for the first time and while try=
ing=20
> to boot a Windows98 image, I got loads of the following
>=20
> Mon Jun 28 14:41:43 1999 neko kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entr=
y 003c2000)
> Mon Jun 28 14:46:53 1999 neko kernel: swap_duplicate at 29000: entry 0=
0029000, unused page
> Mon Jun 28 14:46:54 1999 neko kernel: Out of memory for nmbd.
> Mon Jun 28 14:49:05 1999 neko kernel: VM: Removing swap cache page with w=
rong inode hash on page cab1b000
> [...]
>=20
> ad naseum ... and at which point my system locked up tightly.

Yes, I had similar problems, as soon as my system started to swap.
I had the suspicion, that VMware's module breaks some assumptions made by
Andrea's changes to VM.
Andrea confirmed it: Andrea-VM is incompatible with VMware.

However, he's having a look at it, so it might get fixed soon.

Regards,
--=20
Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, N=FCrnberg, FRG
Linux kernel development; SCSI driver: DC390 (tmscsim/AM53C974)

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