Re: VMWare crashes

[Petr Vandrovec]

On  9 Jul 01 at 9:49, Gary White (Network Administr wrote:
> I realize this may be a VMWare problem, but I just waited to
> bring this to the attention of the developers in case it was related
> to the kernel and to also see if anyone else is having the same
> problem. VMWare dies under load with all kernel versions up to and
> including ac versions after 2.4.6. Kernel version up to and including
> 2.4.5-ac15 I know all run fine. Somewhere between 2.4.5-ac15 and 2.4.6
> is where the problem started. I have backed up to 2.4.5 now and VMWare
> is rock solid.

> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000070
>  printing eip:
> e1af85e1
> Call Trace: [<c0203fe4>] [<c0203fe4>] [<c011722f>] [<c012eb26>] [<c0106dc3>]

Could you feed these oopeses through ksymoops? 

I'm now running vmware 24h/day with linux and win98 as guest, doing
network transfers between host and guest, and I did not noticed any problems.

It worked fine with 2.4.5-ac24 from wednesday to sunday, and yesterday
I upgraded to 2.4.6-ac2, and it still works. Kernel compiled with
Debian's gcc-3.0-3 or gcc-3.0-4, Asus A7V, KT133, 1GHz Athlon, and
Chaintech 6BTM, 440BX, 300MHz Celeron... I did not tested Linus's kernel
for more than 6 months now, so I cannot tell whether it works with Linus's
2.4.6, or not...
                                        Best regards,
                                            Petr Vandrovec
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