After much testing, over several weeks, the ‘get_user_pages‘ solution for Kernels 6.5 and later is now in the default patchset, at: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-17.0.2 . For more details, see the comments at the start of the patch code for the vmmon changes.. vmmon: use get_user_pages to get page PFN Robert Gadsdon. September 30th 2023. … Continue reading →
Kernel 6.6-rc1 is out, and brief details are here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/9/10/185 I had done some previous testing with earlier 6.6-rc GIT versions, and confirm that the latest NVIDIA (535.104.05) and the 6.5-patched VMware 17.0.2 workaround all seem to be working as expected.. The VMware patchset can be found at https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/tmp/workstation-17.0.2-k6.5 and it should be emphasised that this is … Continue reading →
As there is almost always a need to apply the most recent patchset to releases of VMware vmmon/vmnet to support the latest kernels, it might be useful to document a process for making this (relatively..) easy: VMMON and VMNET are picked up during the vmware-modconfig… command, from /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source, and this process expects to find vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar … Continue reading →