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On 14 Feb 2012 at 20:36, Alex Efros wrote: |
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> I've just converted my system from x86 to amd64 (Core i7), and one of |
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> things which become broken because of this is vmware. When I start any |
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> guest my host immediately reset, and after booting I didn't see anything |
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> in logs - neither in kernel nor in vmware's logs. |
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it's likely the same problem as bug 382793. |
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> I can't try gentoo-sources and hardened-sources with exactly same |
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> vmware-modules, because of extra patches needed for vmware-modules to make |
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> it compatible with hardened, and these patches incompatible with non-hardened. |
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what error do you get with the patched vmware modules under non-hardened? |
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they simply move some structure initialization around, that should not be |
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affected by the toolchain. |
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> +CONFIG_IA32_AOUT=y |
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btw, i don't think you need/want a.out support anywhere these days ;) |