> 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. Thanks, got rid of the panic with libnice.so. works great. > 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 > I am a relative newbe with regards to kernel stuff, could you explain what this second point is about, why it should be done? Sam. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
