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Application Crashes when Booting from IDE RAW Disk on Linux Host
Details
On my Linux host, Workstation crashes when I try to boot a
virtual machine from an IDE raw disk.
Solution
Workstation sometimes fails with no error message during the
guest operating system boot. The Workstation log file may record a
signal 11 or other abort. This problem only affects users with
virtual machines booting from raw IDE disks; virtual disk
configurations are not affected.
This problem is caused by certain Linux kernel patches that
affect Workstation when they are applied to the host operating
system. In particular, this problem affects systems running certain
German SuSE Linux 6.4 releases. It does not affect SuSE Linux 6.4
international releases or subsequent SuSE German releases. This
problem only occurs when the affected operating systems are run as
the host. There are no problems caused by running any of these
releases as guest operating systems.
The problem is caused by an IDE kernel patch. The problem was
discovered before the patch was incorporated as part of the normal
Linux source tree. However, the patch was included in at least one
German SuSE 6.4 release.
This issue can be resolved by backing out the offending patch or
downgrading to an older kernel. Updates are available from SuSE to
resolve this problem; check ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/kernel/
for revised kernels.
Thanks to staff at SuSE for their assistance in resolving this
problem.
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