Re: [SLE] VMware troubles on SuSE 9.0

----- Original Message ----- From: "Radu Voicu" To: Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:26 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] VMware troubles on SuSE 9.0

OK, PLEASE, could someone on that list translate the VMware solution from German to English, PLEASE?!??!

at least - http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux/2003-Oct/3345.html

Regards, Radu

----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco Teeuwen" To: Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] VMware troubles on SuSE 9.0

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Ok guys,

I'm posting this from VMware, so it works!!! :))

I've used the mini-HOWTO from Martin Mewes, and that solution worked: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux/2003-Oct/3345.html

Thanx all!!

Marco

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Hello Ken,

I tried booting with ACPI=OFF and later in failsafe mode, VMware still crashes. I'm now going to try Ralf Prengel's suggestion. I hope that works.

Thanx for the suggestion! Marco

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On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:24, Marco Teeuwen wrote:

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Hello everybody,

I installed SuSE 9.0 on my laptop yesterday, and tried to use my existing VMware sessions. Vmware keeps crashing and gives the following output in /var/log/messages:

Oct 29 15:39:34 notebook kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL

I'm unable to give an exact translation, but I understood that you have to perform a normal installation, but when you are requested to overwrite the existing vmmon and vmnet modules, reply NO instead of YES, so that the SuSE modules will stay active. I'll try that as soon as I'll be at this point of the installation of SuSE 9.0. Good luck. Michel pointer

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dereference at virtual address 000005e8 Oct 29 15:39:34 notebook kernel: printing eip: Oct 29 15:39:34 notebook kernel: da5eaa52 Oct 29 15:39:34 notebook kernel: *pde = 00000000 Oct 29 15:39:34 notebook kernel: Oops: 0002 2.4.21-99-default #1 Wed Sep 24 13:30:51 UTC 2003 Oct 29 15:39:34 notebook kernel: CPU: 0 Oct 29 15:39:34 notebook kernel: EIP: 0010:[<da5eaa52>] Tainted: PF Oct 29 15:39:34 notebook kernel: EFLAGS: 00213246 Oct 29 15:39:34 notebook kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000002 ecx: cf9de580 edx: c5a986a0 Oct 29 15:39:34 notebook kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: d7c61e68 esp: d7c61e50 Oct 29 15:39:34 notebook kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Oct 29 15:39:34 notebook kernel: Process vmware-vmx (pid: 3318, stackpage=d7c61000) Oct 29 15:39:34 notebook kernel: Stack: c03bf840 27833000 20580000 d16656e0 da4fe9c0 ffffffea d7c61f88 da5e886c Oct 29 15:39:35 notebook kernel: dff3d800 00000000 00000000 00000000 00003046 c1fff014 d9ae0000 cf93d5c4 Oct 29 15:39:35 notebook kernel: d7c61eb4 00003282 c1fff014 00000001 00003282 00000001 003d1ac0 000145e4 Oct 29 15:39:35 notebook kernel: Call Trace: [<da5e886c>] [kfree_skbmem+11/112] [__kfree_skb+242/320] [unix_stream_recvmsg+407/944] [send_sig_info+38/144] Oct 29 15:39:35 notebook kernel: Call Trace: [<da5e886c>] [<c022624b>] [<c02263a2>] [<c02735d7>] [<c0126426>] Oct 29 15:39:35 notebook kernel: [kill_something_info+192/384] [sys_kill+75/96] [sock_read+117/128] [sys_ioctl+470/618] [sys_read+205/256] [system_call+51/64] Oct 29 15:39:35 notebook kernel: [<c01266d0>] [<c0126f1b>] [<c0223195>] [<c0153526>] [<c014472d>] [<c0108dd3>] Oct 29 15:39:35 notebook kernel: Modules: [(vmmon:<da5e8060>:<da5edefc>)] Oct 29 15:39:35 notebook kernel: Code: 89 9e e8 05 00 00 50 50 8b 45 0c 50 57 e8 ea 0c 00 00 83 c4

I've used both the latest VMware Workstation version as well as the previous one that I was using on SuSE 8.2: - 4.0.1 build 5289 - 4.0.5 build 6030

I've tried making a fresh Virtual Machine with Windows 2000 Pro but this doesn't help either. VMware hangs, and it's not possible to get my mouse and keyboard back from VMware.

Is anyone experiencing the same problems or does anyone know a solution to this problem?

I'll be trying some other PC's tonight to see if I can reproduce the problem there.

Kind regards, Marco Teeuwen

You need to have ACPI turned off in order for VMware to work.

-- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)

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