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Karsten from Berlin
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 Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:02 am Post subject: VMware 5 doesn't like new kernel 2.6.12 [CLOSED] |
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Hi folks!
When trying to configure my VMware 5 to use the new 2.6.12-Kernel, I get the following:
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/dev/vmmon[9612]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165
/dev/vmmon[9612]: Module vmmon: initialized
/dev/vmmon[9628]: Module vmmon: unloaded
/dev/vmmon[9794]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165
/dev/vmmon[9794]: Module vmmon: initialized
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 9831 (vmnet-bridge)
/dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
bridge-eth0: enabling the bridge
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000069
printing eip:
c02f781b
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
Modules linked in: vmnet vmmon ext3 jbd nvidia
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c02f781b>] Tainted: P VLI
EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.12-gentoo-r4)
EIP is at sk_alloc+0x1b/0xe0
eax: 00000020 ebx: f162b200 ecx: 0000000b edx: 00000020
esi: 00000001 edi: 00000000 ebp: f162b20c esp: f1a51df4
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process vmnet-bridge (pid: 9831, threadinfo=f1a50000 task=f1a18590)
Stack: f7c15800 f7c15934 f162b200 f162b20c 00000000 f162b20c f91f79d5 00000010
00000020 00000001 00000000 f162b200 f7c15805 f162b211 f91f7b92 f162b200
f162b20c f66b62a0 000000ab f7c15800 f162b200 00000000 f162b200 c02fe822
Call Trace:
[<f91f79d5>] VNetBridgeUp+0xc5/0x190 [vmnet]
[<f91f7b92>] VNetBridgeNotify+0x82/0x170 [vmnet]
[<c02fe822>] register_netdevice_notifier+0x72/0x80
[<f91f736a>] VNetBridge_Create+0x8a/0x290 [vmnet]
[<c01bd4f6>] copy_from_user+0x46/0x80
[<f91f4647>] VNetFileOpIoctl+0x1b7/0x520 [vmnet]
[<c01122ec>] do_page_fault+0x19c/0x5d5
[<c014fafb>] dentry_open+0xdb/0x1d0
[<c014fa18>] filp_open+0x68/0x70
[<c0162538>] do_ioctl+0x58/0x80
[<c01626b5>] vfs_ioctl+0x65/0x1e0
[<c0162875>] sys_ioctl+0x45/0x70
[<c01029bf>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
Code: 0a 0f 94 c0 e9 0a fe ff ff 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 83 ec 18 8b 54 24 20 89 74 24 0c 8b 74 24 24 89 5c 24 08 89 7c 24 10 89 6c 24 14 <8b> 46 68 85 c0 0f 84 9a 00 00 00 89 54 24 04 89 04 24 e8 ee 43
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This happens when the kernel tries to load a module, that is used to bridge the VMware virtual ethernet with my real Linux ethernet. Any idea how to fix this?
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VMware Workstation 5.0.0 build-13124
Kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 (Gentoo Sources)
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ter_roshak
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:25 pm Post subject: Re: VMware 5 doesn't like new kernel 2.6.12 |
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| Karsten from Berlin wrote: | Hi folks!
When trying to configure my VMware 5 to use the new 2.6.12-Kernel, I get the following:
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/dev/vmmon[9612]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165
/dev/vmmon[9612]: Module vmmon: initialized
/dev/vmmon[9628]: Module vmmon: unloaded
/dev/vmmon[9794]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165
/dev/vmmon[9794]: Module vmmon: initialized
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 9831 (vmnet-bridge)
/dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
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This happens when the kernel tries to load a module, that is used to bridge the VMware virtual ethernet with my real Linux ethernet. Any idea how to fix this?
[EDIT]
VMware Workstation 5.0.0 build-13124
Kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 (Gentoo Sources)
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Did you re-run vmware-config.pl after you upgraded your kernel?
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Karsten from Berlin
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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Sure, the error happens while doing that. At the end of the configuration it loads the modules - that's when I get the error.
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jschellhaass
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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How did you install vmware? You can just emerge vmware-workstation which applies the anyany patch. Or you can get the anyany patch and install manually.
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c4
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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That's strange. Vmware-workstation worked just fine here when I changed to a 2.6.12 kernel. All required was to re-run vmware-config.pl as usual.
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Latest version installed: 5.0.0.13124-r1
sys-kernel/ck-sources
Latest version installed: 2.6.12_p3 |
Did you make sure that vmware had in fact stopped and unloaded the modules, before building any new modules with the config script? Also, did you check that /usr/src/linux pointed to your new kernel sources?
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Karsten from Berlin
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:44 am Post subject: |
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Ah, I see that VMware 5 is in portage now... I will give it a try. My actual installation is from the original CD. So maybe the Gentoo guys changed it a bit. Nobody knows.
For sure the symlink is pointing to the right sources. And the script unloads the old and re-loads the new modules itself. And then it bails me out.
But, as said above, I will try the portage one and hope it works with 2.6.12. If not, I'll have to wait till it works and use 2.6.11 instead.
Thanks.
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After installing the portage version of VMware I can confirm that this one works. Currently the VMware 5 is marked as unstable in portage, so you have to add it to your /etc/portage/package.keywords. Till now I got no answer from the guys of the VMware-support, so I cannot give you details why the original CD-installation breaks. But what I saw while installing the portage version was the above mentioned any-any-patch, so I think that's the trick.
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