VMware 3 changes commited, rtc updated as well

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Sat Mar 13 13:32:34 PST 2004


I just went ahead and committed the changes I had posted to the list
early today.  If you have a working installation of vmware + rtc, there's
no need to update.  Here's my commit message, which sums up the changes:

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A slew of changes to allow vmware3 to work on 5.x with dynamic device
numbering while not breaking 4.x compatibility:

- Stop using device nodes in /usr/compat/linux/dev and instead rely
on the linuxaltor passing though to /dev
- Create needed device nodes in /dev (on 4.x)
- Account for a change in falloc's semantics that was preventing
the vmmon module from being unloaded on 5.1+ machines.
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Of course, testing would still be appreciated if you have the time.  I
tested on 4.9-stable and 5.2-current, but there are many ways in which I
still could have broken the port. :)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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