Why does kdump not work for RHEL5 vmware guests?
Issue
- Kdump does not appear to work for RHEL5 vmware guests.
- Error messages appear similar to the following: (below)

Environment
- Red Hat guest running under VMware ESX 4.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- kdump via ssh
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