Re: [CentOS] Cannot install driver under CentOS/ VMware ?

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 11:09 +0000, MikeW wrote:

Trying the most basic 'vanilla hello world' kernel driver, install using insmod, and trying in module_init to do a simple kmalloc() fails, kmalloc returns NULL - i.e. cannot allocate memory.

The driver loads fine under another non-VM system.

Is this a CentOS/VMware quirk ? Does anyone know of a workaround or is it just a fact of life that you cannot use insmod once the system is running ? After all, the 'normal' kernel modules are able to load OK at startup.

Thanks,

MikeW

Should work fine if the kernels are the same ...