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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: build problems with vmware-modules
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:47:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <j5u1t5$b5s$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110927210815.68c5efc6@toxic.dbnet>

On 09/27/2011 10:08 PM, Jonas de Buhr wrote:
> hello everone!
>
> i'm having problems running vmware. a recend "emerge -DuvaN world"
> upgraded vmware to version 6.5.5 and i upgraded the kernel to
> # uname -a
> Linux toxic 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 #4 SMP Thu Sep 22 16:06:58 CEST 2011
> x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz GenuineIntel
> GNU/Linux

With VMWare, you need recent versions to work with non-ancient kernel 
versions.  VMware 7.x should work fine with kernel 2.6.39.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-28  2:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-27 19:08 [gentoo-user] build problems with vmware-modules Jonas de Buhr
2011-09-27 19:19 ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-09-28  2:47 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-09-28  8:42   ` [gentoo-user] " Jonas de Buhr

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