Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264937AbUISXow (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:44:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264953AbUISXow (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:44:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33772 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264937AbUISXot (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:44:49 -0400 Message-ID: <414E19DF.4090807@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:44:31 -0400 From: Neil Horman Reply-To: nhorman@redhat.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0; hi, Mom) Gecko/20020604 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Felipe Alfaro Solana CC: Norberto Bensa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is anyone using vmware 4.5 with 2.6.9-rc2-mm1? References: <200409191214.47206.norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1548 Lines: 48 Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > On Sep 19, 2004, at 17:14, Norberto Bensa wrote: > >> Hello list, >> >> This is what vmware is saying: >> >> "Could not mmap 139264 bytes of memory from file offset 0 at (nil): >> Operation not permitted. Failed to allocate shared memory." >> >> >> Vmware works fine with 2.6.9-rc1-mm5. > > > It's woking fine for me... I'm using VMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848 > running on top of kernel-2.6.9-rc2-mm1-VP-S1 and Fedora Core RawHide > with no apparent problems (i.e. dmesg shows no errors) and total > functionality. > > - > 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/ Have you accidentally turned down the maximum sized shared memory segment on your system, making an allocation of shared memory of that size impossible? (assuming the 2.6 kernel has the same tunable that the 2.4 series had for shared memory). Neil -- /*************************************************** *Neil Horman *Software Engineer *Red Hat, Inc. *nhorman@redhat.com *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 *http://pgp.mit.edu ***************************************************/ - 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/