VMWare questions/issues?

[Andy Sparrow]

Hi,

Has anyone else noticed the following, or is it just me? 

I recently re-installed VMWare2 and it broke. 

VMware 2 needs the vmware-any-any-update patch to avoid the AIO VMWare 
panic loop.

However, after patching the VMWare binary with the latest 
vmware-any-any-update92, it complains to the effect that "0 is less than 
the required minimum of 32MB for host memory"...

Going into the Configuration Editor indeed shows zero bytes host memory 
detected. Not good.

Patching out the MEM-related function calls from the patch1142() 
function in update.c, re-installing and using the patched patch 
installer seems to fix the immediate problem - all host memory is 
detected.

However, things are still not right. Sometimes VMware starts up 
perfectly and runs for hours with no issues; most times, powering up the 
VM causes an instant hard lock of the machine with the hard drive light 
locked on solid.

I don't recall the older vmware-any-any-update patch doing this, but can 
only find v92 now. Any ideas as to what else might in the patch set 
might be incompatible/unnecesary with linux_base-8-8.0.6? There's really 
not a lot of debugging available - no log entries anywhere, can't break 
to kernel debugger, nothing.


Also, what's the trick to getting networking functional with VMWare3? 
Neither bridged nor host-only mode seems to work for me - packets go 
out, but nothing ever comes back in - the exact same setup/inputs to the 
port works as expected/as it always did with VMWare2...

This is all recent UP 4.11-STABLE with linux_base-8-8.0_6.

Any help appreciated - this sucks greatly, I paid full-price for VMWare 
and it's pretty much been bullet-proof for years. I wish OpenOffice cut 
it for me, but it doesn't.

If a send-pr would be helpful, I'd be happy to oblige.

<Me off to play with the KQEMU kernel module...>


Cheers,

Andy