[TriLUG] RE: vmware and kernel 2.4.8

[Reginald Reed]

Actually, Athlon does have MMX, this is probably another issue.

--Reggie

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From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org]On Behalf
Of Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:28 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RE: vmware and kernel 2.4.8


On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:06:27AM -0400, Brett Bolen spoke thusly:
> The error I get is
> 
>   vmnet.o: unresolved symbol _mmx_copy
> 
> I'm building an amd athlon kernel.  Is this relevant?

Might be. The athlon doesn't ahve MMX, and vmware relies on some of
those calls to virtualize it's Intel Pentium CPU.

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