Just completed some basic tests with the new VMware Workstation 9.0 on my ‘test’ system (x86_64, Fedora 17)…<\/p>\n
Initial results..<\/p>\n
Compiles and runs OK on kernel 3.4.9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Compiles OK, but causes general protection fault<\/strong><\/em> (with tombstone..) on kernel 3.5.2<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 (scroll down for the fix.<\/em><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n …………………….<\/p>\n …………. etc etc ………..<\/p>\n So – I will stay with VMware W\/S 8.0.4(patched) – which runs fine on 3.5.2, for the time being.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hopefully a patch for 9.0 will be available soon.<\/p>\n I will examine the 8.0 patch set to see if there is anything that can be applied to the 9.0 code..<\/p>\n Update:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No need…\u00a0\u00a0 A patch is already available..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tested with VMware W\/S 9.0 on kernel 3.5.2 on my ‘crash and burn’ system, and it works fine.\u00a0\u00a0 Just need to test with ‘live’ data, now..<\/p>\n More details – and the fix, here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/message\/2103172#2103172<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just completed some basic tests with the new VMware Workstation 9.0 on my ‘test’ system (x86_64, Fedora 17)… Initial results.. Compiles and runs OK on kernel 3.4.9. Compiles OK, but causes general protection fault (with tombstone..) on kernel 3.5.2.\u00a0\u00a0 (scroll down for the fix..) ……………………. \/dev\/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened \/dev\/vmnet: open called by PID …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,10,11,14,15,19,20,25],"tags":[173,213,242,363,402,421],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-fedora","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-performance-2","category-vmware","tag-general-protection-fault","tag-kernel-3-5-2","tag-linux","tag-tests","tag-vmware-2","tag-workstation-9-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\/dev\/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened\n\/dev\/vmnet: open called by PID 1055 (vmnet-dhcpd)\n\/dev\/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened\ngeneral protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP \nCPU 1 \nModules linked in: tpm_infineon vmnet(O) fuse vsock(O) vmci(O) vmmon(O) btusb snd_hda_codec_analog \nuvcvideo bluetooth videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_core videodev media snd_hda_intel \nsnd_hda_codec arc4 iwlwifi snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_page_alloc mac80211 cfg80211 hp_accel snd_timer \nsnd rfkill soundcore joydev serio_raw fan lpc_ich lis3lv02d sky2 pcspkr mfd_core input_polldev \nmicrocode thermal container processor nfsd exportfs nfs_acl lockd uinput sunrpc ipv6 radeon \ni2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper ttm drm i2c_core [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]\n\nPid: 1379, comm: vmware-hostd Tainted: G\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IO 3.5.2 #1 Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq 6830s\/30E9\nRIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa02aff99>]\u00a0 [<ffffffffa02aff99>] HostIF_SafeRDMSR+0x6\/0x1d [vmmon]\nRSP: 0018:ffff880136eedbb0\u00a0 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 000000000000048c\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880139ba1490 RDI: 000000000000048c\nRBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff880139ba1480 R09: 0000000000013790\nR10: 0000000005e98b70 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffff880139ba1480<\/pre>\n