[openbeos] Re: Using VMware Player on Linux 2.26.24+ (Ubuntu 8.04 and others)
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:27:04 +0200 CEST
> > I've learnt not to do updates unless I have a very strong reason
> > for that.
> >
> > I hope this kind of stuff won't happen with Haiku (e.g. updates ==
> > breaks somethings)
>
> Linux does not have any stable kernel apis. Hence if Linux changes an
> interface, every kernel module which uses it must be updated. If you
> are concerned with VMware working, just don't update the kernel. From
> what I understand, the any-any update fixes the wraps the new kernel
> apis to what VMware expects. It's unofficial, but generally works and
> is updated faster than the official release from VMware.
Indeed this is really a concern in linux, for example OpenSound has a
really complex build system just to account for this, that is stubs
must be compiled at install time to accomodate for the kernel version.
François.
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