I know this probably doesn't fix your problem, but there's a program
called QEMU that might perform similar functionality to VMWare; does
it have the same issues?  Maybe you want to try that, and see if you
have the same problem or not...

On 8/28/05, Ronald Moesbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, but the tainting is because the license is different from GPL, not
> because of lack of source code (vmware modules source code is
> available). Anyway, I'll wait for a fix. Let me know if there's
> anything I can do to help.
> 
> Ronald.
> 
> On 8/28/05, evilninja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ronald Moesbergen schrieb:
> > > Well, I just successfully reproduced this without the nvidia module
> > > loaded. The oops looks very similar:
> > [...]
> > >  kernel: Modules linked in: vmnet vmmon
> > >  kernel: CPU:    1
> > >  kernel: EIP:    0060:[lock_object+84/127]    Tainted: P      VLI
> >
> > well, the kernel is still tainted - by the vmware modules. but as Vladimir
> > pointed out, there seem to be vmware related issues in reiser4. so you
> > could wait for the fix or try to reproduce with an untainted kernel (maybe
> > it's a completly different problem which needs to be fixed).
> >
> > Christian.
> > --
> > BOFH excuse #432:
> >
> > Borg nanites have infested the server
> >
> 


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