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I just changed my kernel to 2.6.41.1-1.fc15.x86_64 and vmware 8.0.0 will not compile the drivers for the kernel. I switched back to 2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 and it worked. I got the prompt about 8.0.1...
View Articlevcpu-0:VMM fault 14: src=MONITOR rip=0xfffffffffc26c051 regs=0xfffffffffc008ef0
how do i solve this??? thanks sebastian
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