On Wed, 2024-06-26 at 15:56 -0400, Mark C. Allman via users wrote:
> Anyone have VMware Workstation or Player 17.5.1 or 17.5.2 working on the
> 6.9.* kernels? The kernel modules from VMware haven't worked in quite a
> while. They don't compile for the 6.9.* kernels, and, if I'm remembering
> correctly, they don't compile when running the 6.8.* kernels either.
>
> I have the code for vmnet and vmmon from
> https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-17.5.1.
> There are all kinds of exceptions when the kernel modules are loaded at
> boot time. I tried running vmplayer as a test -- it "ran" but trashed
> the kernel and required hard reboots. One of the tests totally bricked
> my laptop (that was fun to recover).
>
> I'm currently running kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64and all packages are
> up to date. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 7591, Core i7-10510U CPU, 16GB
> of ram.
>
> -- Mark
>
>
This was my reply to Broadcom list - hope it helps
From my notes for F40 (meon & monks)
ja@meon ~ 1$ uname -a
Linux meon.jaa.org.uk 6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64
ja@meon ~ 3$ vmware -v
VMware Workstation 17.5.2 build-23775571
Went here
https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/issues/243
for forum then ...
This time I down loaded from here
https://github.com/nan0desu/vmware-host-modules/tree/tmp/workstation-17.5.2-k6.9.1
ja@monks ~ 45$ cd
/global/db/sw/VMware_17/mkubecek_17.5.2/Second_Attempt/vmware-host-modules-tmp-
workstation-17.5.2-k6.9.1
Probably a make clean in here!!!
ja@monks vmware-host-modules-tmp-workstation-17.5.2-k6.9.1 47$ make
[root@monks:/global/db/sw/VMware_17/mkubecek_17.5.2/Second_Attempt/vmware-host-modules-tmp-workstation-
17.5.2-k6.9.1]$ make install
[root@monks:/global/db/sw/VMware_17/mkubecek_17.5.2/Second_Attempt/vmware-host-modules-tmp-workstation-
17.5.2-k6.9.1]$ systemctl restart vmware.service
Ran w11 on Monks - saw no errors with jc -fn40 - so far!
John
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