Problems with vmware-3.2

[Josef Karthauser]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:43:17PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:34:05PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:46:36AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:31:22PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > > > I've just got around to installing vmware-3.2, and it runs! :)
> > > > Unfortunately whenever I try and power on I get the error
> > > > 
> > > >     "this version of the linux kernel is not supported".
> > > > 
> > > > Any tricks or tips as to how to circumnaviate this?
> > > 
> > > sysctl compat.linux.osrelease?
> > > 
> > 
> > Probably.  Any idea what to set it to?
> 
> RH8 is at 2.4.18. The linuxulator sets the value to 2.4.2 as that
> was the kernel revision in RH 7.2
> Therefore: try 2.4.18
> 

Ahha, that appears to work:
    sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.18

I've since found that I was nailing the values in /etc/sysctl.conf,
    #compat.linux.osname=FreeBSD
    #compat.linux.osrelease=5.0-current
so that opera reported the correct things.

Joe
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