On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:20:36PM -0400, John Drescher wrote: > No you can not get vm86 in your 64 bit kernel. But you can install > your application in a 32 bit linux under virtualbox if you have to and > then copy your wine prefix to your 64 bit machine. That is if only the > installer is a dos application. > > John That does not ring true since I have a 64 bit kernel and I can confirm that I do not get the same error as the user. However once I checked what the file was and it reported it as an MS-DOS self extracting archive it seemed that lack of vm86 support in his distro kernel was responsible. I've done some digging, and as far as I can determine, sys_vm86 should be available on most x86_64 kernels, it certain is on my amd64 gentoo box. grep vm86 /proc/kallsyms ffffffff8022c690 T sys32_vm86_warning ffffffff80252d20 W sys_vm86 ffffffff80252d20 W sys_vm86old So, no need to mess with your kernel. The problem appears to be that wine for your platform was built against a glibc that did not install a /usr/include/sys/vm86.h which in turn references /usr/include/asm/vm86.h. Package name varies from distro to distro, so it could be glibc-kernheaders or something similar for you. I can only suggest that if those files exist for you, that you should contact the package maintainer and point this out as a package build problem, or if they don't you'll have to contact your distribution support channels as ask why it's not available. -- Darragh "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."
