[clug] minutes from last meeting

Brad Hards bhards at bigpond.net.au
Mon Jul 28 19:18:00 EST 2003


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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:54 pm, James Macnicol wrote:
> > I since bought a copy of VMware. Does anyone know how to set
> > it up with a
> > 2.6.0-test1 kernel? It wants to compile kernel modules, but they keep
> > throwing errors. Possibly partly a kernel problem.
>
> 	I guess the first question is: are you trying to run 2.6 as host or
> guest?  I don't think they've ported their kernel code to 2.6-pre (waiting
> for this to be "stable" I guess) -- the kernel runs as guest (see below)
> but without the appropriate module you'll lose time sync (and other things
> maybe) which is pretty annoying.  I can't get any of this stuff to compile
As host. There is some breakage in the way machine deps are handled in the 
kernel headers right now (which I think I've fixed, at least enough to 
compile the vmmon module), but there is also something different that stops 
the network module compiling.

Brad
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