Bug 4202
| Summary: | New kernel causes Vmware 1.03 to segfault | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | George Karabin <gkarabin> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Cristian Gafton <gafton> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-07-28 07:03:48 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
George Karabin
1999-07-26 19:00:36 UTC
I received some feedback from Kenon Owens of Vmware. They are
addressing this in future releases, and have a fix for anyone with new
kernels. I've booted my vmware installation, so this can be resolved,
I guess.
From Kenon Owens:
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First of all, the support website should be back up now.
Secondly, about the Segmentation Fault, it is most likely due to the
fact
that the New Mandrake Kernel
is compiled for Big Mem. Here are the steps necessary to resolve this
issue:
Troubleshooting Steps: Find out if they built in "big memory" or
Large
Kernel Support (Support for Kernel's
over 1GB addressable memory space.) To find this out look in the file
/usr/include/adm/page.h If the
__PAGE_OFFSET variable exists and has a value of 0x80000000 then the
kernel
is set up for Large Kernel
Support and the solution is detailed below.
Solution: Perform the following steps to get the 1.0.x versions of
VMware to
handle Large Kernel Support:
A) Uninstall VMware for Linux (using ./install.pl)
1) In the vmware-distrib directory (as root) untar the
driver-only.tar file:
tar xvf driver-only.tar
2) Modify vmware-distrib/driver-only/common/hostif.h by replacing
0xc0000000
with 0x80000000
3) Recreate the tar file with the following command:
tar cvf driver-only.tar driver-only/*
4) Reinstall VMware (./install.pl)
Background: Normal Installs of LINUX have 4GB of addressable memory.
The
first 3 GB are used
for USER applications, and the last 1 GB is used for Kernel Apps.
This
equates to the Kernel
Address Space starting at 0xc0000000. With Large Kernel Support
turned on,
the kernel is now
able to address the last 2GB of space instead of just the one. This
equates
to the Kernel Address
Space starting at 0x8000000.
VMware 1.1 will not have this problem. It is also addressed in the
Experimental Builds out now.
We have had a few customers reporting this problem to support, and
this has
resolved their issues.
Good Luck,
Kenon
VMware Customer Service
George J. Karabin wrote:
> guest wrote:
>
> > I just finished installing the updated kernel .rpms (including
source
> > and headers), running lilo, re-running the install.pl script which
> > successfully built the vmmon and vmnet modules (which are
currently
> > loaded), and rebooting.
> >
> > Now, vmware (1.0.3) gives a segmentation fault on powerup.
> >
> > Do I have a version incompatibility problem, perhaps? Any
> > suggestions?
>
> I've got a post under a different thread "Problems with 2.2.10
kernel
> under RedHat 6.0?" where I'm seeing the same thing. I've filed a
bugtraq
> report (#4202) against Redhat's rawhide kernel release. I would have
> filled in a vmware report, but their server wasn't working when I
tried.
>
vmware modules need to be recompiled against new headers (and possily patched) |