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Re: Problem with VMware 2.0.4 and glibc 2.2.5


On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 07:32:20PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> I got a strange problem with glibc 2.2.5-30 from Red Hat and VMware
> 2.0.4. I got
> 
> VMware Workstation PANIC:
> 
> AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(566): 1081.
> 
> and VMware quitted. glibc 2.2.4-19 works fine. Has anyone seen this?

I saw on it on debian-devel, it's a bug in VMWare because they relied
on the bug in nice(). VMWare provided patches, but those are only for
version 3 and because VMWare is non-free software, you can't patch it
yourself. IMHO some people need to get plex86 in an usable state,
relying on crappy non-free software is always bad. And for me a nice
second-hand machine with the same price as a VMWare license works
fine. :)

I hope I don't get flamed like on debian-devel just because I say that
non-free software is bad and you can expect such things with non-free
software.

Jeroen Dekkers
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