On 14 Feb 2012 at 20:36, Alex Efros wrote:

> I've just converted my system from x86 to amd64 (Core i7), and one of
> things which become broken because of this is vmware. When I start any
> guest my host immediately reset, and after booting I didn't see anything
> in logs - neither in kernel nor in vmware's logs.

it's likely the same problem as bug 382793.

> I can't try gentoo-sources and hardened-sources with exactly same
> vmware-modules, because of extra patches needed for vmware-modules to make
> it compatible with hardened, and these patches incompatible with non-hardened.

what error do you get with the patched vmware modules under non-hardened?
they simply move some structure initialization around, that should not be
affected by the toolchain.

> +CONFIG_IA32_AOUT=y

btw, i don't think you need/want a.out support anywhere these days ;)


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