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Re: Debian unstable / VMware panic AIO NOT_IMPLEMENTED



On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:06:37AM +1000, Ewing Jeff wrote:
> 
> Upgraded unstable around 27/28 March and made other changes.
> 
> Running kernel 2.4.17 (SMP) and VMWare 3.0.0 since December 2001.
> 
> All VMWare Guest OS's (Win98, Debian GNU/Linux and WinNT) fail on
> boot up.
> 
> VMWare log file contains : 
> VMware PANIC: (ide0:0) NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):688
> VMware PANIC: (VMX) AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):688
> 
> Problem has been logged and acknowledged with VMware
> 
> Running VMWare (for corporate apps) successfully on this Debian
> machine for past two and a half years.
> 
> Does anyone know what AIO is and how it can be disabled? Is it
> part of packages (e.g IDE) recently updated?

Try the patch for vmware at:

ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-ws-1455-update12.tar.gz

I patched prior to apt-get upgrading a few weeks ago, and it works
works fine. I understand that it fixes some, if not all, the
problems with VMWare and Debian sid right now. 

I'm also using kernel 2.4.17, but not SMP, and VMWare 3.0.


--
Kevin C. Smith           | "A Society that will trade a little liberty for a
smithkevinc@mchsi.com    | little order will lose both, and deserve neither."
Debian GNU/Linux (sid)   |                                -- Thomas Jefferson


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