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Re: Debian kernel & VMware



Andy Roosen <andrew.roosen@nist.gov> writes:

> I had the same problem until I compiled with the parallel port as a
> module (I usually compile everything into the kernel). There's a note
> somewhere on the VMware install site that implied a parallel module
> was required.

I compiled paralled port as module. The effect was the same.  I found
with depmod that vmmon, vmnet and vmppuser modules all had unresolved
external references, so I recompiled them by hand from sources.
And nothing changed.

> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:52:48PM +0400, Alexander Zhuckov wrote:
> > Oswald Buddenhagen <ob6@inf.tu-dresden.de> writes:
> > 
> > > > When I build kernel from sources (using kernel-package)
> > > > vmware completely hangs my box (I must use reset button).
> > > > 
> > > just an idea: vmware builds its own kernel modules. if you change the
> > > kernel, you might need to re-run vmware-config.pl
> > 
> > Yes, I did it many times. All vmware modules loads fine.
-- 
Alexander Zhuckov   zuav@int.spb.ru   2:5030/518.50


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