Thanks to Niol for reporting this – and thanks to mkubecek for the patch itself – there is a fix for vmmon with Kernel 4.1.-rc1. Details are here: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/commit/770c7ffe611520ac96490d235399554c64e87d9f I have created this patch, and applied it to vmmon (hostif.c), and VMware 12.5.7 (with this patch, and the 4.13 vmnet patch) now runs OK on Kernel 4.14-rc1.. … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.14-rc1 has been released – a day early – and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1709.2/00177.html Tested with the latest NVIDIA (384.69) and VMware (12.5.7 with 4.13-patched vmnet): NVIDIA compile failed, in several places: ….. CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.69/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-crtc.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.69/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-crtc.c:173:6: error: ‘const struct drm_crtc_helper_funcs’ has no member named ‘enable’; did you mean ‘disable’? .enable = nvidia_crtc_enable, ^~~~~~ disable … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.14-rc1 will soon be out, and one change is the removal of the ‘firmware’ portion of the kernel tree.. # make firmware_install will no longer work. Apparently, this in-kernel-tree firmware has not been updated since 2013 (!) and all appropriate firmware has been supplied by the ‘linux-firmware’ distro packages for some time.. Details here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1709.1/04650.html Robert … Continue reading →
I had been getting a warning on boot with recent kernels on my Intel Atom-based UP system, and found a workaround.. The error flagged is – apparently – harmless, and is due to systemd not being able to recognise some mmc disk partitions at that stage of the boot process.. …… [ 5.124250] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[416]: Failed to dissect: … Continue reading →
Apparently there is ‘no information’ on the possible availability of an update to the 12.5.x version of VMware, to fix the well-known problems with GCC 7 etc… If you were thinking of trying the ‘technology preview’ version – which came out some months ago – then this version also has a problem with GCC 7 (tested with … Continue reading →
Apparently there is ‘no information’ on the possible availability of an update to the 12.5.x version of VMware, to fix the well-known problems with GCC 7 etc… If you were thinking of trying the ‘technology preview’ version – which came out some months ago – then this version also has a problem with GCC 7 (tested with … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.13 has been released, and is OK with the latest NVIDIA drivers (tested with 384.69) and VMware 12.5.7 (with the vmnet patch – see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2012 ) Brief details of changes since -rc7 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1709.0/01021.html The VMware workarounds for Fedora 26 / GCC7 etc. are needed, as there is still no update from them.. Robert Gadsdon. … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.13-rc6 is out, and brief details of changes are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1708.2/03592.html As the message mentions, if all goes well, then 4.13 Final should be out in about two weeks time from now.. The release is still OK with the latest NVIDIA (tested with 384.59) and (patched) VMware 12.5.7. Unfortunately, there is still no 12.5.8 release with … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.13-rc2 has been released, and brief details of changes from -rc1 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1707.2/06568.html It used to be that if things were OK with the initial -rc version of the kernel, then all subsequent -rc versions were also OK, but in recent times, this has not always been the case.. I have quickly tested this with … Continue reading →
Thanks to fast work by dariusd at the VMware forum, there is already a fix for the vmnet compile failure with Kernel 4.13-rc1.. The patch can be found on this thread: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2688967 I have tested it, and vmnet now compiles OK, and VMware 12.5.7 loads/runs on Kernel 4.13-rc1.. Robert Gadsdon. July 15, 2017. … Continue reading →