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 ... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061207/f512568f/attachment-0004.sig>