On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:14:39 +0100 wlindenbauer@t-online.de (wlindenbauer) wrote:

is the emulator BOCHS a good alternative for VMWare ?

No. Bochs is far too slow for that (it's more useful for debugging systems because it is more accurate). There is a project called plex86 which aimed to speed it up by adding a JIT, but I don't think that's anywhere near usable There is also the commercial Virtutech Simics simulator which was used for the porting of the x86-64 kernel, but even that is far slower than vmware and not really useful for non debugging use. Your best bet currently is probably qemu which seems to have acceptable performance. -Andi

Hi. I tried to get VMWare GSX Server running on my Opteron System up and running. I tried SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 (32 Bit) and SLES8 (64 Bit) but failed on all attempts. I managed to get the Trial for Windows running on Windows2000, but I have only a licence for the Linux Version. Sincerely, Thorsten TT> detlef oertel wrote:

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I tried to install my vmware 4 on my suse 9.0/amd64 system. After installing I fail to configure vmware. The error message is:

"The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same address space size as your running kernel."

TT> With the risk of stating the obvious, did you contact VMware support (I TT> assume you have a licenced TT> copy)? Voicing the request for x64 support through the appropriate TT> channels will increase the chance of it happening. It shouldn't be TT> surprising that the current VMware doesn't work on x64 as it is rather TT> deeply involved with the OS. However there are no technical obstacles TT> to making a x86 (32 bit) enabled x64 (64 bit) VMware (x64 on x64 is TT> probably possible too, but is a lot more work). TT> Disclaimer: I work for VMware. TT> /Tommy -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen Thorsten Wolf mailto:t_wolf@gmx.de

Tommy Thorn wrote:

detlef oertel wrote:

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I tried to install my vmware 4 on my suse 9.0/amd64 system. After installing I fail to configure vmware. The error message is:

"The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same address space size as your running kernel."

With the risk of stating the obvious, did you contact VMware support (I assume you have a licenced copy)? Voicing the request for x64 support through the appropriate channels will increase the chance of it happening. It shouldn't be surprising that the current VMware doesn't work on x64 as it is rather deeply involved with the OS. However there are no technical obstacles to making a x86 (32 bit) enabled x64 (64 bit) VMware (x64 on x64 is probably possible too, but is a lot more work).

Disclaimer: I work for VMware.

As I see vmware thinks about this :-) http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=1437&tstart=0

----- Original Message ----- From: "detlef oertel" To: "Dmitry Melekhov" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] vmware on suse9/amd64

Hello,

good news:

There is a vmware 4.5 beta wich is running also on suse 9.0/amd64. To get the 4.5 beta look at: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=1496&tstart=0 You will get the link to the download page by mail. Hint: My 4.5 beta works with my 4.05 serial number

Hello! Thank you! Unfortunately, I can't complie vmware modules with kernel 2.6.3 from kernel.org ( I don't remember error message, and currently I'm at home). And on with kernel 2.4.21 (I tested all on Mandrake 9.2) compilation is successefull, but then vmware can't load modules. Could you tell me which kernel do you use?

detlef oertel wrote:

Hello Dmitry Melekhov,

my system is a Suse 9.0/AMD64. output of uname -a: Linux sepia 2.4.21-201-default #1 Wed Feb 18 19:08:21 UTC 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I hope this helps.

Hello! Thank you! Unfortunately, looks like sata_promise in this kernel is broken or, at least, it doesn't work for me, so I can't boot my system. Looks like I have to wait ;-)