Thursday, February 22, 2007

vmware: known issues with newer linux kernels

Source: VMware - Wikipedia:

"Older versions of VMware seem unable to run newer versions of Linux (kernel 2.4 series seem to panic when run on VMware 2.x; and 2.6 series kernels, when run on VMware 3.x, give a protection error). VMware Workstation has now (as of Nov 2006) reached version 5.5.3, which supports these newer operating systems and kernels. However, the latest versions of the 2.6.x kernel require a patch to use all the VMware features — even when using VMware Workstation 5.0 or 5.5. This patch, freely available as vmware-any-any-updatexxx (as of 29 January 2007: update107), comes via the Czech Technical University."

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