To: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vmware on linux 2.6.4
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From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:30:52 +0100
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Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de> writes:

> On Wednesday 17 March 2004 00:39, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>
> Hi Mans,
>
>> I tried to build the vmware modules for kernel 2.6.4 and got this oops
>> when loading vmmon.o:
>> vmmon: no version magic, tainting kernel.
>> vmmon: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
>> Suggestions welcome.
>
> what vmware version do you use? Please make sure you've updated to latest 
> any-any update from (1.)

I installed vmware 4.5.1, and at first I got an oops from insmod
again.  Then I build the modules manually instead of letting the
configure script do it, and now it's up and running.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
mru@kth.se
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