vmware2 doesn't build

[Georg-W. Koltermann]

Craig Boston wrote:

>On Tuesday 23 December 2003 04:38 pm, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote:
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>>If I hack around these two by just using the non-SMP code even in #if
>>SMP, it compiles.  I didn't try to run it yet, but I think I might have
>>a good chance it runs since I'm not on an SMP machine.
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>I've been hacking around this pretty much the same way ever since the apic 
>changes -- it's a UP machine so I just disabled building the SMP module.
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>This was working for me (post apic changes) until just before the 5.2 branch 
>point.  Somewhere in there something changed and it now compiles and seems to 
>run, but as soon as the VM is turned on, the disks on the real system just go 
>dead.  Can't access any files at all, get some messages about ata command 
>timeouts, and the system slowly dies as processes get hung one by one.  It 
>seems to be killing interrupt delivery somehow.
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In the meantime I *did* run the port. It booted W2K ok, I could log in 
and open a Word document from my Unix fs via Samba. I haven't noticed 
any problems with the disc as you describe.

I'll use VMWare more often when back in the office next year.

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Regards,
Georg.