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From: "Hong-Gunn Chew" <hgchewML@optusnet.com.au>
To: "'Petr Vandrovec'" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
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Subject: RE: File corruption when running VMware.
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 01:44:44 +0930
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Hi Petr,

> Hi again,
>   one of 2.4.x kernel images available in SuSE's 8.0 has 
> patched&enabled 
> support for page tables in high memory, and this quickly 
> revealed incompatibility between VMware's vmmon page table 
> handling and ptes above directly mapped range.
> 
>   So if you have >890MB of RAM and your kernel is compiled 
> with support for pte in high memory, please stop using 
> VMware, or reconfigure your 
> kernel to not use pte in high memory (4GB config without 
> pte-in-highmem is OK). Using pte-in-highmem with vmmon will 
> cause kernel oopses and/or 
> memory corruption :-(

I do have 1GB of memory.  I will try to reconfigure my kernel
and see if there's still a problem.
Thanks for the info!

Cheers,
Hong-Gunn

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