RE: File corruption when running VMware.

Hong-Gunn Chew (hgchewML@optusnet.com.au)
Sat, 27 Apr 2002 01:44:44 +0930


Hi Petr,

> Hi again,
> one of 2.4.x kernel images available in SuSE's 8.0 has
> patched&enabled
> support for page tables in high memory, and this quickly
> revealed incompatibility between VMware's vmmon page table
> handling and ptes above directly mapped range.
>
> So if you have >890MB of RAM and your kernel is compiled
> with support for pte in high memory, please stop using
> VMware, or reconfigure your
> kernel to not use pte in high memory (4GB config without
> pte-in-highmem is OK). Using pte-in-highmem with vmmon will
> cause kernel oopses and/or
> memory corruption :-(

I do have 1GB of memory. I will try to reconfigure my kernel
and see if there's still a problem.
Thanks for the info!

Cheers,
Hong-Gunn

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