Just installed Kernel 3.17-rc7, and the usual ‘latest’ drivers – NVIDIA 340.58 and 346.16, and VMware 10.0.4 with the vmnet patch – compile and load OK..

$ uname -a
Linux rg6830l 3.18.0-rc7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 1 13:52:29 PST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Details of changes etc. are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1411.3/05016.html

It seems that – despite the ‘lockup’ issue – 3.18 Final may be released fairly soon..

VMware 11 has just been released, and hopefully that will be compatible with – at least – Kernel 3.17, and probably 3.18 as well, as the version 10 patch (vmnet) worked with both kernel versions..    I will be testing that soon..

Robert Gadsdon.   December 1, 2014..