vmware2 patch for -CURRENT

[Andrew Gallatin]

Georg-W. Koltermann writes:
 > Am Sa, den 01.05.2004 schrieb Andrew Gallatin um 21:34:
 > 
 > > o - linux-base 8.x is too new to run vmware2.  Due to a change in the
 > > nice ABI in glibc, if you run vmware2 with newer libs, it will
 > > crash, complaining that AIO is not implemented.   
 > 
 > There is a patch from VMWare for that.  It's called update42, you can
 > google for "update42 vmware".  You unpack the tar, compile the little C
 > program and run it giving the installed VMWare binary,
 > /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware, as a command line agument.  It patches
 > the binary so that it runs with Linux8 userland.

Awesome!  I haven't tried it, but I welcome an end to the linux
shared-lib hell that running linux_base version 6.1 was creating.
Thanks for the pointer..

Drew