Problem with VMware 2.0.4 and glibc 2.2.5

[H . J . Lu]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:55:18PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> 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. :)
> 

It looks like glibc 2.2.5 changed the ABI for nice. Shouldn't we give
it a new version?


H.J.