fixing Vmware 2 port for 5.x and 6.x.. kmem _alloc_pageable

[Doug Ambrisko]

Vladimir Egorin writes:
| On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:53:03PM -0800, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
| 	> Julian Elischer writes:
| 	> | Well I have it compiling but when running
| 	> | it fails with:
| 	> | 
| 	> | julian at jules:vmware
| 	> | Setting TMPDIR=/var/tmp.
| 	> | VMware Workstation PANIC: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(566):1081
| 	> | VMware Workstation PANIC: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(566):1081
| 	> | VVMware Workstation PANIC: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(566):1296
| 	> | AIO panic loop
| 	> | Mware Workstation PANIC: AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(566):1081
| 	> | julian at jules:
| 	> | 
| 	> | I am guessing that, since this DID work before
| 	> | the new linux base libraries are expecting to use AIO
| 	> | and maybe we don't support it?
| 	> 
| 	> vmware/linux has a bug.  Linux libs changed the call breaking
| 	> vmware.  There are source programs to patch the vmware binaries.
| 	> Do a google search for vmware-any-any-update, build and run against
| 	> you vmware bin.
| 
| Do you know if the same recipe would work for vmware3 ?  
| The port used to work on -CURRENT until about Feb 13, 
| but since then pushing the "power on" button in vmware
| instantaneously reboots the machine.   I did reinstall
| vmware port after upgrading.

This won't fix your FreeBSD host rebooting.  There is probably a driver
incompatibility issue with a newer current.

Doug A.