From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 7 07:21:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B1516A416 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2006 07:21:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5872743D53 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2006 07:21:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so959499uge for ; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:21:33 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Z44ktsH6/KmG4UO4BmieFO8DIwuA1Qh9FcjwKh8QkWPScTS82Tr1pP5Ojl8Tw1b7LJmGb4/KwPMjxvUba3SSsFndMPdTcAfQiZUUErNq8+l0N46W6Exfy5o3D0/xWYVnoSWSlW7b0jEhXxwcO4SjhJpW1ZDumiVeiwM1euAGnD0= Received: by 10.67.119.9 with SMTP id w9mr8689270ugm.1162884093104; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:21:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.86.8 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 23:21:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <790a9fff0611062321n720a627dn22a33dfc95dc6052@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 01:21:33 -0600 From: "Scot Hetzel" To: Lane In-Reply-To: <200611062222.25640.lane@joeandlane.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200611062222.25640.lane@joeandlane.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware Workstation does not run on 2.0.x SMP Linux kernels. Please update to a 2.2.x or later SMP Linux kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:21:35 -0000 On 11/6/06, Lane wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently installed emulators/vmware3, purchased a linux license on ebay, > and ran into this message: > > VMware Workstation does not run on 2.0.x SMP Linux kernels. Please update to > a 2.2.x or later SMP Linux kernel > What is the output of 'sysctl compat.linux.osrelase'? It shoud give you 2.4.2. See the following post from a user who had the same problem: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2003-July/000103.html Make sure your not setting compat.linux.osrelease in your /etc/sysctl.conf file. Scot -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.