Michael Leone on Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:30:05 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Kernel builds, 2.4.7, and VMware GSX?


On 24 Jul 2001 23:03:50 -0400, Michael Leone wrote:
> On 24 Jul 2001 18:47:48 -0700, Tony Dominello wrote:
> 
> > As a recent purchaser of VMware, I'm facing this too.  I use Suse, which has
> > some documantation specific to how to compile the kernel on its website which
> > may be of some help.  I know that VMware likes certain things to be loaded as
> > modules-- not compiled directly into the kernel, so you may want to check
> > VMware's site about that.
> 
> Correct; VMware stuff loads as modules, not kernel patches.

It occurs to me that I left out some stuff ...

VMware seems to like parallel port support as modules (or at least,
that's how I do it); I also make RTC stuff as a module.

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