[ale] Dilema: downgrade kernel or only the ide-cd driver

[truthcon at bellsouth.net]

Hello all,

I am EXTREMELY new to the Linux world (about 1 week old).  My company is using VMware ESX Server (runs on top of Linux 7.x, Linux 2.4.19 kernel).

There is a problem that VMware has with the ide-cd driver and they have a support doc on their website which recommends either:

1) upgrade (actually "downgrade" in my case) to Linux kernel 2.2.17

or

2) just get the ide-cd.c driver from the /drivers/block directory of the 2.2.17 kernel).

Link to support doc -> http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/common/cdrom_data.html

I am confused on the following:

1) Which one should I do?  If upgrading the kernel is what needs to be done, then why would that be practical since VMware is configured to run on v2.4.19?

2) If simply getting the ide-cd.c driver from the /drivers/block directory is the answer, then I guess I would need to compile it using gcc -o <outputfile> <inputfile>.  Then copy the newly compiled ide-cd.o to the appropriate directory on the server which is still running the 2.4.19 kernel and reboot...Right?

I am running out of options and don't really know what to do.  I gotten so much advice...none of which makes sense, most conflicting with one another.  Hopefully you can help me!!

Thanks

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