From: Norberto Bensa <norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx>
To: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
Subject: Re: FIXED?? (Is anyone using vmware 4.5 with 2.6.9-rc2-mm
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:49:10 -0300
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Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > I'll try a plain /tmp directory, but I'd like to know why I can't use
> > tmpfs
> > anymore with kernels >=2.6.9-rc2-mm1.
>
> That's a question that requires far more knowledge than I have.
> Maybe someone here... Andrew?

I think I fixed.

It's not a problem of tmpfs. It's a permissions issue.

This:
tmpfs   /tmp   tmpfs     size=256m,noexec,nosuid,nodev      0 0

...gives the "can't allocate memory" message.

Doing:
# mount -o remount,exec /tmp
# /etc/init/vmware restart

Gives a working vmware (I've tried 2.6.9-rc2-mm1-VP-S2)

# mount | grep \ /tmp
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,size=256m)

Now, why the hell does vmware want exec permission on /tmp, only vmware devs 
know :(


Thanks everyone,
Norberto
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