From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262221AbVAJMdl (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:33:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262223AbVAJMdl (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:33:41 -0500 Received: from mail45.messagelabs.com ([140.174.2.179]:7118 "HELO mail45.messagelabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262221AbVAJMdi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:33:38 -0500 X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: justin.piszcz@mitretek.org X-Msg-Ref: server-22.tower-45.messagelabs.com!1105360416!9146681!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.4.5; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [66.10.26.57] Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: FW: Linux 2.6.10 under VMware - NULL pointer. X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:33:35 -0500 Message-ID: <2E314DE03538984BA5634F12115B3A4E01BC425F@email1.mitretek.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: FW: Linux 2.6.10 under VMware - NULL pointer. thread-index: AcT1yb925V2n2jU6RFy6rWh/5LcKlwBRnEYw From: "Piszcz, Justin Michael" To: , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Questions: > 1. Is the VMWare host Windows or Linux? The VMWare host is Windows XP SP2. > 2. Is the distribution of Linux you are attempting to run as a guest one > that is supported by VMWare? Previously, it was Slackware and now Debian, not "officially supported." But I never had any problem with kernels 2.6.5-2.6.9 with either distribution. > 3. Are you using the latest version of VMWare? Yes, I am using the latest stable. -----Original Message----- From: M. Edward Borasky [mailto:znmeb@cesmail.net] Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 4:32 PM To: Piszcz, Justin Michael Subject: Re: FW: Linux 2.6.10 under VMware - NULL pointer. On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 10:49 -0500, Piszcz, Justin Michael wrote: > At first, I thought these problems may have been related to XFS; however, I am now using ext2 and they still persist. > > Under the same Virtual Machine, Slackware-9.1, 10 & -current worked OK with kernels 2.6.5-2.6.9. > > The current distribution I am running is Debian Sarge 3.1rc2 with 2.6.10. > > Any ideas? Questions: 1. Is the VMWare host Windows or Linux? 2. Is the distribution of Linux you are attempting to run as a guest one that is supported by VMWare? 3. Are you using the latest version of VMWare? VMWare is a commercial, licensed product. I have a license (Windows XP Host), but I haven't done much with it recently, mostly because the machine in question is now a *real* dual-boot and it doesn't really have enough RAM to support a Linux guest in the manner to which Linux is accustomed. :) When I was using VMWare with Linux guests, however, my recollection is that Red Hat Linux was supported; everything else was "roll your own". I was able to get Debian "woody", Knoppix LiveCDs and hard disk installs to work easily as guests. A little more hacking was required with Gentoo, because of the different way Gentoo handles "/etc/init.d". If I run out of more interesting things to do this weekend, I might upgrade my VMWare to the latest stable and try to load Gentoo 2004.3 as a guest with a 2.6 kernel, just to see what happens. I have Gentoo's 2.6.10-r3 running on all of my Linux boxes. I had one panic with 2.6.10-r1, but no events of any kind since that. Ed Borasky