I give up, no change to bring VMware Workstation running after F25->F26 upgrade ...

[Walter H.]

tried VMware Wkst. 12.5.6, also 12.5.7 ... no change ...
even the hack to get the additional virtual network interfaces, nothing 
helped ...

maybe the next release of VMware Wkst. 12.5.8 will run ...

as VMware Wkst. is essential for me, there is no way having Linux 
instead of Windows;
the decision to try it with Fedora is the feature of inplace upgrade and 
keep it up-to-date ...

I'll keep my old windows running as log as the hardware is working ...

[Zachary Snyder]

You are trying to get VMware running on linux to host windows or vice
versa? If you're trying to host windows inside linux is KVM/Qemu

On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 1:10 PM Walter H. 
wrote:
> tried VMware Wkst. 12.5.6, also 12.5.7 ... no change ...
> even the hack to get the additional virtual network interfaces, nothing
> helped ...
>
> maybe the next release of VMware Wkst. 12.5.8 will run ...
>
> as VMware Wkst. is essential for me, there is no way having Linux
> instead of Windows;
> the decision to try it with Fedora is the feature of inplace upgrade and
> keep it up-to-date ...
>
> I'll keep my old windows running as log as the hardware is working ...
>
> users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]

[Walter H.]

On 30.07.2017 19:12, Zachary Snyder wrote:
> You are trying to get VMware running on linux to host windows or vice 
> versa?

No, the virtual machines must be compatible with other hosts running 
VMware ...
> If you're trying to host windows inside linux is KVM/Qemu

No, because not any knowledge about it ...
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 1:10 PM Walter H. <[e-mail] 
> > wrote:
> tried VMware Wkst. 12.5.6, also 12.5.7 ... no change ...
> even the hack to get the additional virtual network interfaces,
> nothing
> helped ...
>
> maybe the next release of VMware Wkst. 12.5.8 will run ...
>
> as VMware Wkst. is essential for me, there is no way having Linux
> instead of Windows;
> the decision to try it with Fedora is the feature of inplace
> upgrade and
> keep it up-to-date ...
>
> I'll keep my old windows running as log as the hardware is working ...

[Dr J Austin]

Assuming you are running the linux version of WS 12.5.7
and F26 kernel 4.11.11-300.fc26.x86_64
Then I have w2k and windows 7 working

Have you found this
http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1992

I followed the above URL

Sorting out the libraries

cp -r /usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.1.0/lib/lib/libexpat.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib
cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1
mv -i libz.so.1 libz.so.1.old
ln -s /usr/lib64/libz.so.1 .
vmware

---------------------------------------------------
Compiling the vmmon & vmnet modules

mkdir /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar xf vmmon.tar
tar xf vmnet.tar

cd vmmon-only
make

cd ../vmnet-only
make

cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet-only/vmmon.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc

depmod -a

In addition I had to disable 3D acceleration for the w7 virtual machine

On Sun, 2017-07-30 at 17:12 +0000, Zachary Snyder wrote:
> You are trying to get VMware running on linux to host windows or vice versa? If you're trying to host
> windows inside linux is KVM/Qemu
>
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 1:10 PM Walter H.  wrote:
> > tried VMware Wkst. 12.5.6, also 12.5.7 ... no change ...
> > even the hack to get the additional virtual network interfaces, nothing
> > helped ...
> >
> > maybe the next release of VMware Wkst. 12.5.8 will run ...
> >
> > as VMware Wkst. is essential for me, there is no way having Linux
> > instead of Windows;
> > the decision to try it with Fedora is the feature of inplace upgrade and
> > keep it up-to-date ...
> >
> > I'll keep my old windows running as log as the hardware is working ...
> >
> > users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
>
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[Walter H.]

On Sun, July 30, 2017 21:14, Dr J Austin wrote:
> Assuming you are running the linux version of WS 12.5.7
> and F26 kernel 4.11.11-300.fc26.x86_64
> Then I have w2k and windows 7 working
>
> Have you found this
> http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1992

yes and didn't work,
only the virtual network adapters for NAT or Host-Only Guests worked ...

such a patchwork is not really acceptable, especially not when it doesn't
work ...
> On Sun, 2017-07-30 at 17:12 +0000, Zachary Snyder wrote:
> > You are trying to get VMware running on linux to host windows or vice
> > versa? If you're trying to host
> > windows inside linux is KVM/Qemu
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 1:10 PM Walter H. 
> > wrote:
> > > tried VMware Wkst. 12.5.6, also 12.5.7 ... no change ...
> > > even the hack to get the additional virtual network interfaces,
> >
> > nothing
> > > helped ...
> > >
> > > maybe the next release of VMware Wkst. 12.5.8 will run ...
> > >
> > > as VMware Wkst. is essential for me, there is no way having Linux
> > > instead of Windows;
> > > the decision to try it with Fedora is the feature of inplace upgrade
> >
> > and
> > > keep it up-to-date ...
> > >
> > > I'll keep my old windows running as log as the hardware is working
> >
> > ...

[Dr J Austin]

On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 10:04 +0200, Walter H. wrote:
> On Sun, July 30, 2017 21:14, Dr J Austin wrote:
> > Assuming you are running the linux version of WS 12.5.7
> > and F26 kernel 4.11.11-300.fc26.x86_64
> > Then I have w2k and windows 7 working
> >
> > Have you found this
> > http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1992
>
> yes and didn't work,
> only the virtual network adapters for NAT or Host-Only Guests worked ...

Strange - mine is using auto-bridging OK
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[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 09:58:50 +0100
Dr J Austin wrote:
> > yes and didn't work,
> > only the virtual network adapters for NAT or Host-Only Guests worked ...
>
> Strange - mine is using auto-bridging OK

Is libvirtd enabled and starting its own networking
and dnsmasq and interfering with vmware? (Just a thought,
I've never used vmware).

[Walter H.]

On Mon, July 31, 2017 10:58, Dr J Austin wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 10:04 +0200, Walter H. wrote:
> > On Sun, July 30, 2017 21:14, Dr J Austin wrote:
> > > Assuming you are running the linux version of WS 12.5.7
> > > and F26 kernel 4.11.11-300.fc26.x86_64
> > > Then I have w2k and windows 7 working
> > >
> > > Have you found this
> > > http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1992
> >
> > yes and didn't work,
> > only the virtual network adapters for NAT or Host-Only Guests worked
> > ...
>
> Strange - mine is using auto-bridging OK

I mean only this two virtual network adapters can be seen by
# ifconfig

that's all

neither the player,
        the workstation nor
        the virtual network editor front end start ...

it is complete unuseable ...

[Mark C. Allman]

On 07/30/2017 01:12 PM, Zachary Snyder wrote:
> You are trying to get VMware running on linux to host windows or vice
> versa? If you're trying to host windows inside linux is KVM/Qemu
>
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 1:10 PM Walter H. <[e-mail]
> > wrote:
> tried VMware Wkst. 12.5.6, also 12.5.7 ... no change ...
> even the hack to get the additional virtual network interfaces,
> nothing
> helped ...
>
> maybe the next release of VMware Wkst. 12.5.8 will run ...
>
> as VMware Wkst. is essential for me, there is no way having Linux
> instead of Windows;
> the decision to try it with Fedora is the feature of inplace
> upgrade and
> keep it up-to-date ...
>
> I'll keep my old windows running as log as the hardware is working ...
>
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> users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> <mailto:[e-mail]>
> To unsubscribe send an email to
> [e-mail]
> <mailto:[e-mail]>
>
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> [e-mail]

I had 12.5.6 and I now have 12.5.7 running on 4.11.11-300.fc26.x86_64. I
use it to run a Windows 10 64-bit creator updated VM.

I ran into two problems with "out of the box" VMware Workstation:
1.  I needed to compile and install two modules manually
2.  A library was missing (found by running "strace -o /tmp/debug.txt
vmware"
     and looking at the end of what's in debug.txt)

I wrote a shell script to handle #1. I can't remember what the missing
library is for #2.

Post what's happening and I bet we can figure it out.
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[Ed Greshko]

On 07/31/2017 01:08 AM, Walter H. wrote:
> tried VMware Wkst. 12.5.6, also 12.5.7 ... no change ...
> even the hack to get the additional virtual network interfaces, nothing helped ...
>
> maybe the next release of VMware Wkst. 12.5.8 will run ...
>
> as VMware Wkst. is essential for me, there is no way having Linux instead of Windows;
> the decision to try it with Fedora is the feature of inplace upgrade and keep it
> up-to-date ...
>
> I'll keep my old windows running as log as the hardware is working ...

Well, if VMware Workstation is essential for you and since VMware Workstation is a
product from a company called VMware I would think you'd check their compatibility
charts.   Looking at

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&...

I see only Fedora 22 listed as being supported by them.  I'm sure you'll agree that
the Fedora community isn't responsible for providing a solution to getting VMware
Workstation running on Fedora.  But, it would appear that some have tried and have
succeeded with information they found on the internet.  Unfortunately, that seems not
to have worked for you.

Certainly you are frustrated since you "give up".  But I think you'll agree your
frustration should be directed at VMware and not at the Fedora Community.

I see they also only support up to Ubuntu 15.04 and not the most recent release
Ubuntu 17.04 and they don't even support Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS.

Now, things may have changed but I believe VMWare Workstation is a purchased
product?  At least that is the impression I get when I go to
https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-for-linux.html and see a "Buy Online"
button.  Also, the last time I did have VMware Workstation (many years ago) you only
were given 30 days of support....but could purchase a support package by incident.

So, maybe contact them and query them on why that are slow to support new versions of
Linux?  And, since this is VMware centric maybe their forums would be a good place to
get help?  You've not mentioned trying that....so maybe you'll get more assistance
there?  https://communities.vmware.com/welcome