Regarding VMWare 3.0 Port and an odd bug that i've been getting over and over again...

[Enache Adrian]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 09:15:48PM -0700, Scott M. Likens wrote:
> Jul 11 16:45:20: ide0:0|NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):712
> Jul 11 16:45:20: ide0:0|AIO: ide0:0, Process 60017 panic.
> Jul 11 16:45:20: ide0:0|AIOSlave: Exit after panic.
> Jul 11 16:45:20: VMX|AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):712
> Jul 11 16:45:20: VMX|Panic loop

I'm pretty sure that's the nice incompatibility in recent glibc's.
vmware still thinks nice returns -1 on error, and that's no longer true:
it returns the new nice value, which could be very well -1.
The error message is totally bogus - it's probably issued by higher
layers that assume nice cannot fail.

Your only solution is to disassemble and "binary patch" vmware itself
using a hexeditor.
That may not be legal :-)

Good luck,

Adi