Hmmm. That was not my experience. I am not using ubuntu though. I
am using gentoo. I installed a stock 2.6.15 kernel and patched with
Ingo's patch. Rebuilt the kernel installed the nvidia modules. Then
I did a compile of the vmware modules via its configure script. It
complained about a missing spinlock and died. Will try it again over
the weekend with that in mind however.
I havnt seen any instability in the system. It has not degraded my
performance. However, I am not running the system as a server either.
I have installed VMW-Player two Weeks ago on UBUNTU
dapper drake
preflight4 with active working rt-kernel - the VM-Modules built OK and
the Player works.