@coreplayer2:
If you boot without that option, what does "grep -i vmalloc /proc/meminfo" say (after hitting that mount error)? How big a GPU do you have?
edit: On a Qemu boot, there's 900mb reserved.
@andyj
There is a new kernel driver for the VMWare mouse, supposed to enable a better experience, but it requires Xorg and the vmmouse driver. Seems like you need a bootcode, psmouse.proto=imps, to disable the new vmmouse driver.
It's unfortunate this can't be detected at runtime. We can either:
- disable that driver, but then the VMWare mouse experience might suffer in the future, when they remove the userspace mouse sync from xf86-input-vmmouse
- just document that vmware + Xvesa needs that
Adding absolute pointer support (vmmouse, touch screens) to Xvesa would also be possible, but it's not something I'm interested in doing.