[wellylug] VMWare price drop

[Jonathan Harker]

Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> I wouldn't bother with VMware if you are running a 2.6 series kernel as it
> just appears to crash. Its fine with 2.4 kernels, but I have had no luck
> getting it to run with any 2.6 kernels.
> 
> If anyone has managed to get it working with a 2.6 kernel I'd be
> interested to know how they managed it.

There is a user-contributed patch for the source code fragments that vmware 
uses to compile its modules, as well as the install scripts that update the 
config.

Start here and see how you get on:
    http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1804

I have the patch for vmware 4.0.5.6030 lying around somewhere if you want me 
to put it up for download.

Happy patching,  :-)
J