[CentOS] Cannot install driver under CentOS/ VMware ?

Thu Dec 7 11:09:13 UTC 2006
MikeW <mw_phil at yahoo.co.uk>

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