On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 10:40, Scott M. Likens wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 07:51, Christopher Nehren wrote: > > The "not implemented" error message suggests to me that the VM (in this > > case, Win2K) is attempting to perform an operation that the emulation > > software (or its underlying operating system -- in this case, Linux > > 2.4.2 under FreeBSD emulation) doesn't know how to perform. I received a > > similar message when attempting to install Windows XP on VMWare 2.x -- > > however, IIRC, mine didn't crash or require a hard reboot. My hypothesis > > is that -- were this a real, modern Linux machine -- that operation > > would succeed. However, since this is a binary emulation situation (one > > that itself manages its own layer of binary emulation), and one that > > more directly interfaces with the underlying hardware than most Linux > > emulated programs, the likelihood for such an operation to fail > > increases. As far as I understand it, the solution involves more fully > > implementing the Linux emulation. > > Actually it's during shutdown that this bug occurs > > It's quite annoying on top of the 'rtc.ko' wanting to dump and creating > a infinite loop panic at shutdown isn't that great either. > > I know i'm not the only person experiencing this, just the only person > who cares. > > So i've come to this conclusion, I'll just need linux. > > You are right thought it's obviously a call it's making like sync() i > imagine that we arn't implementing properly in the emulation. So when > VMWare try's to make this what should exist call, it's not really there > and fudges up. > > Thus leaving crap in the kernel i imagine, and thus creating the > problem. > > > > Either this, or it could just be a plain bug in VMWare -- though I've > > learned from experience that it's always best to blame oneself before > > assuming others are at fault. Nah it's still there with VFS_AIO compiled into the kernel. Obviously it's more then meats the eye, but I don't know where it lacks it, thus why I asked the list to see if I missed it. -- "I think we ought to be out there doing what we do best - making large holes in other people's countries." - George Carlin
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