[nzlug] VMware x Xen x KVM x Qemu

[Cliff Pratt]

Robin wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> 
>> Hmm, I'm not sure what you mean. If you have VMWare Server running
>> on a recent kernel, all you have to do is recompile the driver by
>> running the configuration script. The only patch required is the
>> any-any patch.
> 
> It was the any-any patch that I meant. However, I spent a long time
> trying to figure out why the module version number disagreed with the
> application version number (and so they wouldn't talk to each other).
> Turns out the any-any patch gets the version number wrong when it
> does its compile, and you need to recompile one more time for it to
> work.
> 
Recompile what? The kernel? I've always used a packaged kernel, 
admittedly, but I've only used the any-any patch once for each release 
of VMWare.

Cheers,

Cliff