Tony Grant wrote:
>>OK so I installed a fresh VMware Workstation 3.2.1 and patched
it
>>with vmware-any-any50. Exact same error.
>Do not use Fedora's prebuilt kernels with 3.2.1. RedHat broke /dev/mem
>completely, so you can use it only as root (and even that is
>questionable).
>If you'll build your kernel from Linus's sources, it will work. It
>is impossible to fix this problem with binary patch, just whole
>RedHat's idea about /dev/mem is broken.
> Petr
I can confirm that not even the root user can run vmware with 2.6.1x
kernel. My kernel was built from the 2.6.1-1.37 SRC rpm.
Is this a Fedora problem or a vmware problem?
Cheers
Tony Grant
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115769
I have total success running vmware workstation 4.0.5 within latest FC2
after using vmware-any-any-update50.
Warren