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VMware – Patching Made Easy..?

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 2, 2023 by RGSeptember 2, 2023

As there is almost always a need to apply the most recent patchset to releases of VMware vmmon/vmnet to support the latest kernels, it might be useful to document a process for making this (relatively..) easy: VMMON and VMNET are picked up during the vmware-modconfig… command, from /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source, and this process expects to find vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar … Continue reading →

Posted in kernel, Linux, Opinion, patches, VMware | Tagged easy install, howto, patched, vmware | 1 Reply

Howto: Cross-Compiling for ARM – One Method..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on November 16, 2013 by RGNovember 16, 2013

I originally wrote an article on cross-compiling for ARM systems, some time ago – before I got my first Raspberry Pi – and this is a more up-to-date version. This is how I cross-compile ARM kernels, on x86_64.  There are – of course – other ways of doing this, but this works, for me.. The following info … Continue reading →

Posted in arm, compilation, Fedora, Hacks, kernel, Linux / ARM, Opinion, Raspberry Pi | Tagged arm, cross-compile, example, howto, toolchain | Leave a reply

Fedora 17 – Simple Things made Complex..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 11, 2012 by RGSeptember 11, 2012

Running Fedora 17, you expect certain features to be a bit ‘bleeding edge’, but sometimes it seems things are getting more difficult, rather than – as it should be – easier? An example in point.. Why on earth did someone decide good old eth0 was not good enough?  Now I have ‘p20p1‘ instead! I used to think … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, Hacks, Opinion, Performance | Tagged add new disk, fedora 17, fstab, howto, uuid | 1 Reply
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