From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 12:50:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47DFD37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genius.tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188AD43FDF for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@genius.tao.org.uk) Received: by genius.tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 054A74A74; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 20:50:39 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 20:50:38 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <20030701195038.GE2413@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20030701143122.GB792@genius.tao.org.uk> <20030701174636.GB6789@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030701193405.GD2413@genius.tao.org.uk> <20030701194317.GA18509@ns1.xcllnt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030701194317.GA18509@ns1.xcllnt.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with vmware-3.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 19:50:53 -0000 On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:43:17PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:34:05PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:46:36AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:31:22PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > > I've just got around to installing vmware-3.2, and it runs! :) > > > > Unfortunately whenever I try and power on I get the error > > > > > > > > "this version of the linux kernel is not supported". > > > > > > > > Any tricks or tips as to how to circumnaviate this? > > > > > > sysctl compat.linux.osrelease? > > > > > > > Probably. Any idea what to set it to? > > RH8 is at 2.4.18. The linuxulator sets the value to 2.4.2 as that > was the kernel revision in RH 7.2 > Therefore: try 2.4.18 > Ahha, that appears to work: sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.18 I've since found that I was nailing the values in /etc/sysctl.conf, #compat.linux.osname=FreeBSD #compat.linux.osrelease=5.0-current so that opera reported the correct things. Joe -- Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. =================