VMWare crashes

Gary White (admin@netpathway.com)
Mon, 09 Jul 2001 09:49:44 -0500


I realize this may be a VMWare problem, but I just waited to
bring this to the attention of the developers in case it was related
to the kernel and to also see if anyone else is having the same
problem. VMWare dies under load with all kernel versions up to and
including ac versions after 2.4.6. Kernel version up to and including
2.4.5-ac15 I know all run fine. Somewhere between 2.4.5-ac15 and 2.4.6
is where the problem started. I have backed up to 2.4.5 now and VMWare
is rock solid.

Running VMWare Version 2.0.4 Build-1142
Asus K7V KT133 Chipset
Athlon 1000Mhz w/512MB Memory

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000070
printing eip:
e1af85e1
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<e1af85e1>]
EFLAGS: 00013282
eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c243e000 edx: 00000000
esi: d6b2f480 edi: dfe24df4 ebp: dfe24dc0 esp: c243feb0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process vmware (pid: 487, stackpage=c243f000)
Stack: de7aac04 00000000 de7aac00 d6b2fd80 de7aac3c 00000001 dfe212c0 dfe4d400
dfe212c0 dfe212c0 d6b2fd80 e1af6f9e dfe24e14 c76f1e00 00003202 de7aac04
00000000 de7aac00 d6b2fd80 e1af74e6 de7aac04 c76f1e00 c76f1e00 c0203fe4
Call Trace: [<c0203fe4>] [<c0203fe4>] [<c011722f>] [<c012eb26>] [<c0106dc3>]

Code: 8b 42 70 83 f8 01 74 0a ff 4a 70 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 0c 83 c4

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Gary White               Network Administrator
admin@netpathway.com          Internet Pathway
Voice 601-776-3355            Fax 601-776-2314

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