Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261615AbTIZT4P (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:56:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261620AbTIZT4P (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:56:15 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:25519 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261615AbTIZT4K (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:56:10 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jan Rychter Subject: Re: vmware in Linux 2.6 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:56:10 -0700 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <14D30F86678@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Spammers-Please: blackholeme@rychter.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2Rc15aEgwkwm6gz/tEOPXwYqibA= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>>>> "Petr" =3D=3D Petr Vandrovec : Petr> On 26 Sep 03 at 12:50, Mons Rullgord wrote: >> "Petr Vandrovec" writes: >> > Is it possible to use vmware with Linux 2.6? The kernel modules > (obviously) fail to compile. [...] Petr> And except that this patch makes thing compilable, it also makes Petr> driver a bit friendlier to the MM subsystem, it allows you to use Petr> VMware on 4G/4G host, and it properly handles bridged networking Petr> on adapters using hardware (or pseudohardware...) Tx checksumming Petr> (although only for IPv4 due to features of dev_queue_xmit_nit). Does VMware roll these changes back in? This isn't cheap software, I feel they should care for Linux users a bit more. For those who run VMware on notebooks with ACPI, another patch is necessary, otherwise ACPI C-states handling doesn't notice VMware and as a result the guest system is unbearably slow. =2D-J. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/dJnbLth4/7/QhDoRAgi+AKC2DPxUjGQqyJRAIylfeRc1DNpf8wCg37h8 OvpI2az6uzAxU7AHkyxj0Dg= =V0hO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/