Re: vmware in Linux 2.6

[Jan Rychter]

>>>>> "Petr" == Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@xxxxxxxxxx>:
 Petr> On 26 Sep 03 at 12:50, Mons Rullgord wrote:
 >> "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
 >>
 > Is it possible to use vmware with Linux 2.6?  The kernel modules
 > (obviously) fail to compile.

[...]

 Petr> And except that this patch makes thing compilable, it also makes
 Petr> driver a bit friendlier to the MM subsystem, it allows you to use
 Petr> VMware on 4G/4G host, and it properly handles bridged networking
 Petr> on adapters using hardware (or pseudohardware...) Tx checksumming
 Petr> (although only for IPv4 due to features of dev_queue_xmit_nit).

Does VMware roll these changes back in? This isn't cheap software, I
feel they should care for Linux users a bit more.

For those who run VMware on notebooks with ACPI, another patch is
necessary, otherwise ACPI C-states handling doesn't notice VMware and as
a result the guest system is unbearably slow.

--J.

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