[sle-beta] Issues with get_user_pages and VMware

[Vincent Moutoussamy]

Hi,
> On 9 Aug 2017, at 10:59, Waite, Dick (External) <Dick.Waite at softwareag.com> wrote:
> 
> Just a heads up...
> 
> SUSE has made a changes to the kernel api "get_user_pages". This is in LEAP 42.3, uname -r  4.4.76-1 and it causes VMware WS not to build.

What is VMware WS? Workstation?

> I have SLES12 SP-3 GA at uname -r 4.4.74-92.32 and this runs VMware Okay ???

It’s SLES 12 SP3 GMC until we officially release SP3 ; )
Are you saying it’s working for you ? I’m confused by your question mark..

> This came from a SLES12 SP-2 GA machine which did have zypper patch applied weekly. It was "updated" using the SLES12 SP-3 GA .iso file.
> 
> I also have a number of SLES12 SP-3 GA machines running uname -r 4.4.73.5 and again a zypper patch says no updates available. I have not tried to run VMware WS on these.

That’s expected, after we release a GMC, there is NO patches/updates relevant to
GMC in our online channels and we will not publish any new patches/updates after
GMC.

> There are a numbers of blogs on this subject. If you do use VMware WS be very careful where you run it.

Do you mind to give some hints or urls?

Regards,
--
Vincent Moutoussamy
SUSE Beta Program and SDK Project Manager
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