Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261671AbUCQQ3O (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:29:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261884AbUCQQ3O (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:29:14 -0500 Received: from mail.eris.qinetiq.com ([128.98.1.1]:18356 "HELO mail.eris.qinetiq.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261671AbUCQQ3H convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:29:07 -0500 From: Mark Watts Organization: QinetiQ To: Marc-Christian Petersen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: vmware on linux 2.6.4 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:19:43 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200403171119.48026@WOLK> In-Reply-To: <200403171119.48026@WOLK> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403171619.43758.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1306 Lines: 49 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > 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.) What does this update actually do? I'm currently running VMWare 4.5.1 on mandrake 10.0 Community with their 2.6.3 kernel and VMWare is working just fine. Any compilation of modules was all performed by vmware-install.pl Cheers. Mark - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWHqfBn4EFUVUIO0RAoxfAKDcilnCVu4OFBD8QAmx9BVmIJfgZACeMkGe CBjhrmLC5D7l+Vch2SvM4As= =X4Zb -----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/