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Bug 189062

Summary: <app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.0.2 on AMD64 does not run w/ kernel 2.6.22
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Ted Winograd <shofutex>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled>
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO    
Severity: normal CC: diogot, rodrigo, s-luppescu, schiotz
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: Log snippet while running crashed vmware
Output of emerge --info
VM configuration file

Description Ted Winograd 2007-08-16 02:15:00 UTC
After booting into the 2.6.22 kernel, recompiling vmware-modules and reconfiguring vmware-server, starting a new virtual machine will hang the system on AMD64.  Several folks on the Gentoo Forums have reported the same issue. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-572276-highlight-vmware.html

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot into 2.6.22
2. /etc/init.d/vmware start
3. vmware
4. Start a VM

Actual Results:  
Everything hangs.  Running processes continue to run but am unable to launch new processes.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-16 05:34:08 UTC
Uhm... which vmware stuff doesn't run (exact ebuild name and version)? emerge --info output? Anything relevant in system logs? How are you VMs configured?
Comment 2 Ted Winograd 2007-08-16 11:29:33 UTC
Created attachment 128270 [details]
Log snippet while running crashed vmware
Comment 3 Ted Winograd 2007-08-16 11:30:13 UTC
Created attachment 128271 [details]
Output of emerge --info
Comment 4 Ted Winograd 2007-08-16 11:35:18 UTC
Created attachment 128273 [details]
VM configuration file

The affected version is vmware-server, with the ebuild app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.3.44356.

I've tested with the attached configuration.
Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-16 12:00:36 UTC
Reopen.
Comment 6 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-16 12:28:02 UTC
Hi, I'm very sorry, but this seems to be a well known problem (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/2/151).  There is little we can do about this, as the solution proposed in the linked email was strongly advised against, and we won't be applying it.  Currently you'll either have to use an old kernel, or wait until a new version of vmware-server is released.  5:(

Comment 7 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-23 17:44:15 UTC
*** Bug 189957 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Rodrigo Severo 2007-08-23 17:52:29 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> Hi, I'm very sorry, but this seems to be a well known problem (see
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/2/151).  There is little we can do about this, as
> the solution proposed in the linked email was strongly advised against, and we
> won't be applying it.  Currently you'll either have to use an old kernel, or
> wait until a new version of vmware-server is released.  5:(

Doesn't vmware-any-any-update113 fixes these issues?

Comment 9 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-23 17:56:06 UTC
Rodrigo,

No, unfortunately any-any-update113 changelog says only "Change ASSERT_ON_COMPILE to make g++ 3.4 happy", which fixes the gcc-3 compilation issues, but not the AMD64 hard crash problem.  Sorry...  5:(
Comment 10 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-09-11 11:28:11 UTC
*** Bug 192122 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-09-14 23:57:13 UTC
OK.  Ramereth just affirmed this bug on VMware workstation, too.  I'm going to REOPEN this until any-any114 comes out that should fix this so we know who has experienced the issue to have them help test the fix.
Comment 12 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-09-15 08:56:12 UTC
From what I could make out from the LKML it may not be possible for them to patch it properly for older versions of workstation without releasing new versions of the main software itself.  I'm not aware that any-any-update114 will contain a fix, so this bug may end up being open a while...
Comment 13 David Watzke 2007-09-19 16:20:48 UTC
Same here (2.6.23-rc* kernel). How about VMware Server 1.0.4? It may be resolved in this new version... http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html#resolved
Comment 14 Ted Winograd 2007-09-23 17:29:20 UTC
(In reply to comment #13)
> Same here (2.6.23-rc* kernel). How about VMware Server 1.0.4? It may be
> resolved in this new version...
> http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html#resolved
> 

VMware Server 1.0.4 seems to have resolved this on 2.6.22-gentoo-r5.
Comment 15 David Watzke 2007-09-23 17:31:52 UTC
(In reply to comment #14)
> VMware Server 1.0.4 seems to have resolved this on 2.6.22-gentoo-r5.

Same here (2.6.23-rc7). We can mark this bug as RESOLVED FIXED now, I guess.
Comment 16 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-09-23 17:38:32 UTC
I don't really see where in the resolved notes, or how it could have so please feel free to reopen this if necessary, but for now I'm gonna mark it as FIXED.
Comment 17 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-12-21 10:29:56 UTC
*** Bug 202925 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 Jakob Schiotz 2007-12-21 10:37:15 UTC
I would like to request that this bug is reopened, as the problem is still present in vmware-workstation-5.5.5.56455 (the latest stable one for amd64).

/Jakob
Comment 19 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-12-21 10:42:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #18)
> I would like to request that this bug is reopened, as the problem is still
> present in vmware-workstation-5.5.5.56455 (the latest stable one for amd64).

Tried to re-emerge vmware-modules so that you get an uptodate any-any patch?
Comment 20 Rodrigo Severo 2007-12-21 10:47:05 UTC
(In reply to comment #18)
> I would like to request that this bug is reopened, as the problem is still
> present in vmware-workstation-5.5.5.56455 (the latest stable one for amd64).

Just to let you know I have several amd64 servers running app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.4.56528 without problem.
Comment 21 Jakob Schiotz 2007-12-21 10:53:29 UTC
I rebuilt vmware-modules 10 days ago.  

Should I use the unstable vmware-modules 1.0.0.17?


Right now I am trying an evaluation license of version 6, but I would prefer not to have to pay for an upgrade.

/Jakob
Comment 22 Johan Bondeson 2007-12-21 11:00:22 UTC
The thing that did the trick for me in this case was to remove any virtualization from the kernel. All kdm, xen and iguest support gone seems to make vmware happier. I havent tried this with workstation 5.5 though, just 6.0.
Comment 23 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-12-21 18:37:03 UTC
Jakob, please don't try vmware-modules-1.0.0.17, you'll get a version mismatch, 1.0.0.17 is only for vmware-workstation-6.0.2/vmware-player-2.0.2.  The dependencies in the ebuild should ensure that you only use the correct vmware-modules for your package.

Jakob, I'm happy to reopen this bug (although it will most likely just sit here, since there's very little we can do), but I'd like to request that you try out the latest 2.6.23 kernel with workstation-5.5.5 and see if that solves your problems?

Thanks  5:)
Comment 24 Jakob Schiotz 2008-01-02 10:08:08 UTC
(In reply to comment #23)
> Jakob, please don't try vmware-modules-1.0.0.17, you'll get a version mismatch,
> 1.0.0.17 is only for vmware-workstation-6.0.2/vmware-player-2.0.2.  The
> dependencies in the ebuild should ensure that you only use the correct
> vmware-modules for your package.

Happy New Year, and sorry for the late reply - I was away from the affected machine.

I unmerged and remerged both vmware-workstation and vmware-modules.  Unfortunately, the bug is still there both with the newest stable and the newest testing gentoo-sources kernels (2.6.23-r3 and -r5).  I do not have any virtualization support in the kernel.

When running Internet Explorer, the machines quickly crashes.  This time it managed to pop up a window saying "vcpu-1:DoubleFault".  When attempting to cut-and-paste the exact error into an editor, the whole machine crashed.


> 
> Jakob, I'm happy to reopen this bug (although it will most likely just sit
> here, since there's very little we can do), but I'd like to request that you
> try out the latest 2.6.23 kernel with workstation-5.5.5 and see if that solves
> your problems?
> 
> Thanks  5:)
> 

I am aware that reopening will not help much, but at least other people with the same problem are more likely to find it.

To reiterate:  I am running vmware-workstation-5.5.5.56455 and vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1 on an Intel Core 2 laptop with two processors and a 64-bit Linux installed.  The guest operating system is Windows XP SP2 (32-bits).

Best regards

Jakob
Comment 25 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-02 13:55:26 UTC
Thanks for testing it out, re-opening it as requested.
Comment 26 Jakob Schiotz 2008-01-04 13:16:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #25)
> Thanks for testing it out, re-opening it as requested.
> 

I upgraded to vmware-workstation 6, that seems to have solved the problem.

/Jakob
Comment 27 Stuart Luppescu 2008-03-03 15:52:50 UTC
(In reply to comment #26)
> (In reply to comment #25)
> > Thanks for testing it out, re-opening it as requested.
> > 
> 
> I upgraded to vmware-workstation 6, that seems to have solved the problem.

I'm perfectly happy with workstation 5, and have no need to upgrade. I resent being forced to pay an upgrade fee just to fix a bug, the introduction of which was none of my doing. (Sounds like something Microsoft would pull.) Is there any prospect of this being fixed any time soon? 

Please understand that I'm mad at vmware. The gentoo developers are doing a great job -- I have no complaint with them.
Comment 28 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-26 17:23:37 UTC
Stuart, I know it's along shot, but there have been some patches added to the vmware-modules to get them to run under the 2.6.25 kernel.  Also vmware-workstation 5.5.6 has been released.  Could you please try this combination (modules, workstation and preferably kernel) and report back how it works?
Comment 29 Stuart Luppescu 2008-04-26 20:09:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #28)
> Stuart, I know it's along shot, but there have been some patches added to the
> vmware-modules to get them to run under the 2.6.25 kernel.  Also
> vmware-workstation 5.5.6 has been released.  Could you please try this
> combination (modules, workstation and preferably kernel) and report back how it
> works?

Well, I've already unmerged workstation from my x86_64 machine at work, but I still have it on my 32-bit machine at home, but I hardly use it. I was under the impression that it's a 64-bit problem. I can try it at home, if you think it will help. Also, the 2.6.25 kernel is still marked testing, isn't it? 

Comment 30 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-27 07:21:41 UTC
You're right, only kernel 2.6.24 is available.  It is an amd64 issue, so if it's too much trouble to test out then not to worry, I still don't know anything specific that's happened that might help, just wondering if vmware found a fix with their latest version.  Sorry we haven't been able to find a solution...
Comment 31 Stuart Luppescu 2008-04-27 15:14:59 UTC
(In reply to comment #30)
> Sorry we haven't been able to find a
> solution...

Actually, my solution is to use VirtualBox. It works really well!

Comment 32 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-10 12:41:39 UTC
Ok, can someone please confirm whether the latest vmware-workstation-6.5.1 is still having the same issues on the latest kernel (2.6.28)?