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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.