Comments on: vmware-specific-specific 5.5.x and kernel 2.6.29-2.6.30

By: George

George — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:48:01 +0000

Hello,

I am having problems with this patch. I use 2.6.30.5-43 PAE kernel and I cannot install vmwares server ANY VERSION. I get this error, and I do not know if there is something I made wrong or the patch is not for my kernel. Thank you in advance.

By: John Lumby

John Lumby — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:26:10 +0000

Thanks for this patch. It works fine for me but I have two questions on the code -
one relating to yours and second relating to the original vmware code :
1. in linux/driver_compat.h LinuxDriverLockedNoPage() (file added by http://www.insecure.ws)
after line
pg = fdata->pgoff;
need
pg = VMMON_MAP_OFFSET(pg); /* jel */
2. linux kernel #defines
#define VM_FAULT_SIGBUS 0×0002
but compat_mm.h has
#ifndef NOPAGE_SIGBUS
#define NOPAGE_SIGBUS (0)
#endif
and I believe vmware’s use of its NOPAGE_SIGBUS is same as linux kernel’s use of its VM_FAULT_SIGBUS
so shouldn’t the vmware define be
#define NOPAGE_SIGBUS (2)

By: Paul Belanger

Paul Belanger — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:29:51 +0000

Alright, I kept digging and discovered I didn’t have the kernel source installed. Found this article …

http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_fedora_p2

… and VMWare works now! Thanks for the patch

By: Paul Belanger

Paul Belanger — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:26:57 +0000

I’m trying to get VMWare Workstation 5.5.9 running. I’m willing to attempt to patch the kernel and I think I have the source files but… ugh, I don’t have an init_task.c file. There’s an init_task.h but no reference to init_mm in it. What now?

I just installed Fedora 11, 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64.

By: Jochen Wiedmann

Jochen Wiedmann — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:53:26 +0000

Any chance to get rid of the kenel patch?

By: Cyber

Cyber — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:53:52 +0000

Hi kang,

yeah, fixed. ((:

not memory does not increase any more! ((:

Thanks a lot for your professional work!!!

Great!

>>>cyber

By: kang

kang — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:12:19 +0000

hi cyber, please download the new archive, this fixes the memory leak i believe you have, please tell me if it works now

By: Cyber

Cyber — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:32:35 +0000

hey sanjay,

you have to patch your linux kernel source (usually at /usr/src/linux) and there the file arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c

@kang: i’m daily visiting your page with hope you will find the memory leak … ):

>>>cyber

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:14:03 +0000

Need some help

[root@sunjoy 2.6.29.2-52.fc10.x86_64]# patch -p1 -i /home/radhju/Desktop/downloads/vmware-update-2.6.29-5.5.9/2.6.29-export-init_mm.patch
can’t find file to patch at input line 5
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or –strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
————————–
|diff –git a/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c b/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c
|index 5b3ce79..3d01e47 100644
|— a/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c
|+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c
————————–
File to patch:

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:49:48 +0000

HI KANG! nice site! xD