[ltp] Linux-2.2.16 and VMware

[Friedemann Baitinger]

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since VMware was mentioned lately quite a few times I think it's
probably worthwhile to mention the experiences I made with it in
conjunction with linux-2.2.16:

After I had upraded 3 of my Linux servers with 2.2.16 shortly after that
kernel came out I finally decided to upgrade the ThinkPad (RH
6.2) too. It worked all fine until I started VMware running NT 4.0 as a
guest. As soon as the NT tried to connect through host-only networking
to some other host the machine died so badly that NT's disk was totaly
corrupted. The hang was consistently reproducable but only when
connected to a TokenRing network. In my Ehthernet LAN it worked fine. In
the course of investigating I have also upgraded to the latest version
of the VMware distribution, Version 2.0.1 but it wasn't any better with
this version. Since the NT's disk file consistently crashed so badly
that I had to restore a backup (fortunately I had one) I finally went
back to 2.2.14 on the ThinkPad and everything works just fine as it did
before.

Is anybody successfully using a ThinkPad 770X with Linux-2.2.16 and
VMware 2.0.1 with NT 4.0 as a guest OS and doing host-only networking
through a Token Ring network? If you plan to do so, and in fact whenever
you make significant changes to the setup, I'd like to strongly suggest
to make a backup of VMware's guest OS disk file.

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Friedemann Baitinger      fb@baiti.net       http://baiti.net/fb/
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