Fwd: Patch preventing remounting filesystem read-only on vmware esx guests

[Przemysław Świderski]

Thx for answer. Great news for me: no more read-only virtual machines:)

Is it possibile to patch older (especially TLS/dapper) ubuntu kernels?

Regards,
Przemek 'Jam' Swiderski


On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 03:12:37PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> This looks to already be applied in stock 2.6.22. So gutsy should be ok.
> 
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 14:02 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> > ----- Forwarded message from Przemys??aw ??widerski <jam at dom.vizavi.pl> -----
> > 
> > From: Przemys??aw ??widerski <jam at dom.vizavi.pl>
> > Subject: Patch preventing remounting filesystem read-only on vmware esx
> > 	guests
> > To: kyle at ubuntu.com
> > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:00:30 +0200
> > Message-ID: <20071017180030.GA6379 at dom.vizavi.pl>
> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11)
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I found your linux-image-virtual kernel. Great idea :)
> > I think that this package is best place to put patch which
> > prevents remount filesystem read-only in ubuntu guest system
> > on vmware ESX servers.
> > 
> > Patch and the problem is described on that page:
> > http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/31-VMware-ESX-and-ext3-journal-aborts.html
> > (http://tinyurl.com/25ez4r)
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Przemek 'Jam' Swiderski
> > 
> > 
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> > 
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