Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262876AbUCWWG0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:06:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262879AbUCWWG0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:06:26 -0500 Received: from arhont1.eclipse.co.uk ([81.168.98.121]:6567 "EHLO pingo.core.arhont.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262876AbUCWWGV (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:06:21 -0500 Message-ID: <4060B4C7.8060107@arhont.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:05:59 +0000 From: Andrei Mikhailovsky Reply-To: andrei@arhont.com Organization: Arhont Information Security User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Debian/1.6-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans-Peter Jansen CC: Petr Vandrovec , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VMware-workstation-4.5.1 on linux-2.6.4-x86_64 host fails on virtual ethernet setup References: <200403232233.46879.hpj@urpla.net> In-Reply-To: <200403232233.46879.hpj@urpla.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4078 Lines: 106 I have successfully installed (well actually upgraded) to 4.5.1 from 4.0.5. No patches where required and everything seems to work like a charm. -- Andrei Mikhailovsky Arhont Ltd Web: http://www.arhont.com Tel: +44 (0)870 4431337 Fax: +44 (0)117 9690141 PGP: Key ID - 0xFF67A4F4 PGP: Server - keyserver.pgp.com Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > [CCing LKML in order to give other people, which may suffer from this > in the future something to google for ;-)] > > Hi Petr, > > I'm suffering from a strange problem here. I tried to reach you on > vmware.for-linux.experimental without success (got a trollish answer only). > > Here it is: > I'm trying to get VMware-workstation-4.5.1-7568.i386.rpm working on SuSE > 9.1b1, based on linux-2.6.4-x86_64. Thanks to some googling, I found related > hints from you and your vmware-any-any-update54, which got me around the > compile issues in vmmon with this patch: > > --- vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c.orig 2004-03-21 20:53:35.042565778 +0100 > +++ vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c 2004-03-21 20:53:40.284442570 +0100 > @@ -516,13 +516,13 @@ > ClearNXBit(VA vaddr) > { > pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset_k(vaddr); > - pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset(pgd, vaddr); > + pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset_map(pgd, vaddr); > pte_t *pte; > > if (pmd_val(*pmd) & _PAGE_PSE) { > pte = (pte_t*)pmd; > } else { > - pte = pte_offset(pmd, vaddr); > + pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, vaddr); > } > if (pte_val(*pte) & _PAGE_NX) { > pte_val(*pte) &= ~_PAGE_NX; > > > vmware-config.pl and /etc/init.d/vmware both fail at the same point, > setting up virtual networking [the latter with VMWARE_DEBUG=yes]: > > Starting VMware services: > Virtual machine monitor done > Virtual ethernet done > Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0cd /usr/bin && /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge > -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid /dev/vmnet0 eth0 > eth0: Not a valid Ethernet interface > failed > > > This triggers these syslog messages: > > Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165 > Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized > Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: vmnet: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel. > Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 4871 (vmnet-bridge) > Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory. > Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened > Mar 22 21:45:57 tyrex kernel: ioctl32(vmnet-bridge:4871): Unknown cmd fd(5) cmd(00008941){00} > arg(ffffd268) on /dev/vmnet0 > > Replacing vmnet.tar with yours suffers from the same problem. > > stracing vmnet-bridge command: > execve("/usr/bin/vmnet-bridge", ["vmnet-bridge", "-d", "/var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid", > "/dev/vmnet0", "eth0"], [/* 72 vars */]) = 0 > [ Process PID=4910 runs in 32 bit mode. ] > eth0: Not a valid Ethernet interface > > syslog: > Mar 22 21:51:40 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 4910 > (vmnet-bridge) > Mar 22 21:51:40 tyrex kernel: /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened > Mar 22 21:51:40 tyrex kernel: ioctl32(vmnet-bridge:4910): Unknown cmd fd(5) cmd(00008941){00} > arg(ffffd288) on /dev/vmnet0 > > Surely, eth0 is up and running (I highly depend on a working lan here ;-) > > Obviously it's some problem with i386 <-> x86_64 interfacing. > > Any ideas, what to try next? > > TIA, > Pete > > - > 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/ - 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/