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

[Wolfgang Nejdl <nejdl kbs uni-hannover de>]

Robert Love <rml novell com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

You are right, I generated /dev/inotify in the wrong way. Thank you.

Wolfgang

> 	Robert Love
> 
>