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-...
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