From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.0.0-10; Linux 2.4.18-10; X11; i686; en_US) Description of problem: VMware-Workstation 3.2 build 2230 crashes with 'AIO: Not Implemented' when suspending or abrubtely powering off the virtual machine on kernels 2.4.18-17.7.x and 2.4.18-18.7.x BUT NOT with kernel 2.4.18-10 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot with either 2.4.18-17.7.x or 2.4.18-18.7.x kernel 2. Run VMware Workstation 3.2 build 2230 3. Boot a Virtual Machine 4. Click on 'suspend' Actual Results: VMware crashes Expected Results: VMware successfully suspends teh virtual machine Additional info:
Full text of the VMware error dialog: *** VMware Workstation Unrecoverable error: (VMX) AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):654 Please request support and include the contents of the log file: 'linux.log'. ***
The problem still exists in the latest 2.4.18-19.7.x kernel. Where could i get the kernel-2.4.18-10.src.rpm package ? Maybe i can fix it for you :-)
it's a bug in vmware; they need to fix their program.
See http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=873 for solution on this and couple of other VMware related problems (except ones caused by glibc 2.3.1-nptl.