VMware player with Fedora 26 (kernel module not loaded)

[Robbi Nespu]

Hi everyone, anyone found workaround on getting VMware player loaded
without problem ? I saw people posted on VMware community board and the
respond are less, so I try my luck posting here.

$ uname -a
Linux fedora26 4.12.8-300.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 17 15:30:20 UTC 2017
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I already compiled the vmmon and vmnet library source successfully, copy
both *ko file to /lib/modules/<kernel version>/misc, ran depmod -a command
and reboot.

VMware still asking to locate and check GCC, a working workaround is to run
with "/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer " command but when I loaded *vmdk into
VMware then I getting "Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon’ is
loaded”"

Tried both latest VMplayer 7 and 12. I still gettting the same error. I
only have 2 kernel installed right now

$ rpm -q kernel
kernel-4.11.8-300.fc26.x86_64
kernel-4.12.8-300.fc26.x86_64

Tried with older kernel and still face the same error


-- 

Best Regards,
RN

[Mark C. Allman]

On 09/02/2017 09:58 PM, Robbi Nespu wrote:
>  Hi everyone, anyone found workaround on getting VMware player loaded
>  without problem ? I saw people posted on VMware community board and
>  the respond are less, so I try my luck posting here.
>
>  $ uname -a
>  Linux fedora26 4.12.8-300.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 17 15:30:20 UTC
>  2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>  I already compiled the vmmon and vmnet library source successfully,
>  copy both *ko file to /lib/modules/<kernel version>/misc, ran depmod
>  -a command and reboot.
>
>  VMware still asking to locate and check GCC, a working workaround is
>  to run with "/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer " command but when I loaded
>  *vmdk into VMware then I getting "Please make sure that the kernel
>  module `vmmon’ is loaded”"
>
>  Tried both latest VMplayer 7 and 12. I still gettting the same error.
>  I only have 2 kernel installed right now
>
>  $ rpm -q kernel
>  kernel-4.11.8-300.fc26.x86_64
>  kernel-4.12.8-300.fc26.x86_64
>
>  Tried with older kernel and still face the same error
>
>
>  -- 
>
>  Best Regards,
>  RN 
What is the output of "systemctl status vmware?"  Here's mine:

● vmware.service - SYSV: This service starts and stops VMware services
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware; generated; vendor preset:
disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2017-08-28 14:02:16 EDT; 5 days ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Tasks: 10 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/vmware.service
     ├─1279 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmblock-fuse -o
subtype=vmware-vmblock,default_permissions,allow
     ├─1325 /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge -s 6 -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid -n 0
     ├─1428 /usr/bin/vmnet-netifup -s 6 -d
/var/run/vmnet-netifup-vmnet1.pid /dev/vmnet1 vmnet1
     ├─1443 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -s 6 -cf
/etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dh
     ├─1452 /usr/bin/vmnet-natd -s 6 -m /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat.mac -c
/etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf
     ├─1458 /usr/bin/vmnet-netifup -s 6 -d
/var/run/vmnet-netifup-vmnet8.pid /dev/vmnet8 vmnet8
     ├─1475 /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -s 6 -cf
/etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf -lf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dh
     └─1533 /usr/sbin/vmware-authdlauncher

Sep 03 07:44:16 draco vmnet-dhcpd[1475]: DHCPDISCOVER from
00:0c:29:b9:18:1d via vmnet8
Sep 03 07:44:16 draco vmnet-dhcpd[1475]: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.51.131 to
00:0c:29:b9:18:1d via vmnet8
Sep 03 07:44:16 draco vmnet-dhcpd[1475]: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.51.131
from 00:0c:29:b9:18:1d via vmnet8
Sep 03 07:44:16 draco vmnet-dhcpd[1475]: DHCPACK on 192.168.51.131 to
00:0c:29:b9:18:1d via vmnet8
Sep 03 07:59:16 draco vmnet-dhcpd[1475]: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.51.131
from 00:0c:29:b9:18:1d via vmnet8
Sep 03 07:59:16 draco vmnet-dhcpd[1475]: DHCPACK on 192.168.51.131 to
00:0c:29:b9:18:1d via vmnet8
Sep 03 08:14:16 draco vmnet-dhcpd[1475]: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.51.131
from 00:0c:29:b9:18:1d via vmnet8
Sep 03 08:14:16 draco vmnet-dhcpd[1475]: DHCPACK on 192.168.51.131 to
00:0c:29:b9:18:1d via vmnet8
Sep 03 08:29:16 draco vmnet-dhcpd[1475]: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.51.131
from 00:0c:29:b9:18:1d via vmnet8
Sep 03 08:29:16 draco vmnet-dhcpd[1475]: DHCPACK on 192.168.51.131 to
00:0c:29:b9:18:1d via vmnet8

*Mark C. Allman, PMP, CSM*
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Sr. Project Manager, Allman Professional Consulting, Inc.,
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