emulators/vmware2 vs. emulators/linux_base-8

[Georg-W. Koltermann]

I'm happy to report that the patch below also works for VMware 2.

--
Regards,
Georg.

Am Di, den 11.11.2003 schrieb ein unbekannter Absender um 14:31:
> Tim Pozar wrote:
> 
> > FYI...
> > 
> > I was getting a number of panics for Vmare2 with the
> > "emulators/linux_base-8" package.  Seems that folks may want to
> > stay with the "emulators/linux_base" or "7" package.
> > 
> > Tim
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> 
> I have solved this problem with VMware3.
> (Not VMware2)
> 
> After googling for a while, this is probably due to the
> change in nice() in GNU C library.
> 
> You can fix the problem by either going back to old library
> or patch the VMware binary to make it work with newer libc.
> 
> 
> Here is what you can do. Download a patch.
> There are many patches available. I used the latest in obsolete.
> I do not know which one is which. But, this one worked for me.
> 
> vmware-any-any-update42.tar.gz
> 
> Just google it and find it somewhere.
> 
> After downloading, untar in a directory.
> 
> Then, you have
> 
> runme.pl
> services.sh
> services2.sh
> update
> update.c
> vmmon.tar
> vmnet.tar
> 
> in vmware-any-any-update42 directory.
> update.c looks like it patches the file, and update is probably
> compiled binary. So, I
> 
> cc -o ./foo update.c
> ./foo /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
> 
> This patches the vmware binary.
> At the moment, VMware is running on R4.9, am installing RH9.
> 
> Since update.c looks like it does patch vmware binary and
> does not need to be linux binary, compiling update.c may be
> universally possible for all paltforms.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
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>