Re: does inotify kernel work in a virtual vmware linux guest?

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:32 +0100, Wolfgang Nejdl wrote:

> Does anybody have any experience with running an inotify-enabled kernel
> in a VMware virtual machine? 
> 
> I have installed the latest inotify-enabled kernel in a Suse 9.2 virtual
> machine / guest (vmware itself is running under Windows XP), and have
> (after some difficulties with compiling / installing / upgrading the
> right beagle related packages) managed to compile and run beagle. 
> 
> However, when beagled starts up and tries to start indexing on my home
> directory /home/nejdl, it stops with an error message in inotify.cs,
> saying that the IOCTL is the wrong one for the device.

There is no reason why inotify should not work in VMWare.

But your error message is baffling.  First guess would be
that /dev/inotify does not have the right minor/major.  The output of
`dmesg | grep inotify` should show it.

	Robert Love