Re: vmware support

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On Wednesday 06 November 2002 14:35, Samuel Monsarrat wrote:
> Just curious to know what problems you guys have, for me (what I have
> seen so far):
> - vmware systematically crashes on shutdown. This is not fatal but is
> just annoying to me
> - I am unable to activate audio support. If I add audio support to the
> virtual machine then the w2kpro (my guest system) does not start and
> complains about gui startup and mga<something>.dll being corrupt (which
> is not true). The OS is up and running as I can access it by smb but not
> the gui.

I am not sure why but I have never gotten sound to work for a guest when 
running gnome on the host.  On the other hand, it does work when I run kde.

Given below are the other problems from my previous message:

The following information was gleaned from the information on 
news://news.vmware.com and although it "works for me", your milage may vary.

1.  Late in the development cycle RH introduced a scheduler-fixes patch to the 
kernel which causes vmware to panic/crash when you shutdown/poweroff the 
guest.  The fix is to use a replacement for nice().  This is available at: 
http://www.angelfire.com/linux/ylai/

This is needed to run both the 3.1.1 and 3.2 versions (I don't know about 
others).  If you (for some reason) cannot get libnice.tar.gz from the above, 
email me and I will send you a copy (it is only 10K).  After installing 
libnice.so, you use it by doing:

LD_PRELOAD=libnice.so  vmware

to run vmware.

2. With respect to 3.2, after installing 3.2, configure the kernel source 
properly:

 a) edit Makefile so that EXTRAVERSION matches the kernel you are running
 b) copy the config file for the kernel you are running from configs to 
arch/i386/defconfig
 c) make mrproper
 d) make oldconfig
 e) make dep

The to configure vmware do:

 CC=/usr/bin/gcc  vmware-config.pl

--
Gene



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