Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 23:06:28 +0100 From: "Georg-W. Koltermann" <gwk@rahn-koltermann.de> To: ntai@smartfuit.com Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emulators/vmware2 vs. emulators/linux_base-8 Message-ID: <1075759588.992.1.camel@localhost.muc.eu.mscsoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <3FB15430.4070707@smartfruit.com> References: <20031107154918.GA33872@lns.com> <3FB15430.4070707@smartfruit.com>
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I'm happy to report that the patch below also works for VMware 2. -- Regards, Georg. Am Di, den 11.11.2003 schrieb ein unbekannter Absender um 14:31: > Tim Pozar wrote: > > > FYI... > > > > I was getting a number of panics for Vmare2 with the > > "emulators/linux_base-8" package. Seems that folks may want to > > stay with the "emulators/linux_base" or "7" package. > > > > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I have solved this problem with VMware3. > (Not VMware2) > > After googling for a while, this is probably due to the > change in nice() in GNU C library. > > You can fix the problem by either going back to old library > or patch the VMware binary to make it work with newer libc. > > > Here is what you can do. Download a patch. > There are many patches available. I used the latest in obsolete. > I do not know which one is which. But, this one worked for me. > > vmware-any-any-update42.tar.gz > > Just google it and find it somewhere. > > After downloading, untar in a directory. > > Then, you have > > runme.pl > services.sh > services2.sh > update > update.c > vmmon.tar > vmnet.tar > > in vmware-any-any-update42 directory. > update.c looks like it patches the file, and update is probably > compiled binary. So, I > > cc -o ./foo update.c > ./foo /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware > > This patches the vmware binary. > At the moment, VMware is running on R4.9, am installing RH9. > > Since update.c looks like it does patch vmware binary and > does not need to be linux binary, compiling update.c may be > universally possible for all paltforms. > > Good luck. > > -- > Naoyuki "Tai" Tai, ntai a t smartfruit d o t com >
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