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>On 09/27/2011 10:08 PM, Jonas de Buhr wrote: |
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>> hello everone! |
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>> i'm having problems running vmware. a recend "emerge -DuvaN world" |
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>> upgraded vmware to version 6.5.5 and i upgraded the kernel to |
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>> # uname -a |
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>> Linux toxic 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 #4 SMP Thu Sep 22 16:06:58 CEST 2011 |
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>> x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz GenuineIntel |
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>> GNU/Linux |
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>With VMWare, you need recent versions to work with non-ancient kernel |
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>versions. |
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i've been running vmware 6.x with 2.6.31 before with no problems. if
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its that incompatible with newer kernels the dependencies should state
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that and 7.x should become stable.
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but it seems you're right:
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/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.25-r3/work/vmblock-only/linux/filesystem.c:84:4:
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error: unknown field ‘get_sb’ specified in initializer
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seems some stuff changed in the kernel
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https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/17/29
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> VMware 7.x should work fine with kernel 2.6.39. |
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i will give 7.x a try. thanks! |
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