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VMware – Backward-Compatible 3.19 Fix.. — 36 Comments

  1. Me sirvio… bastante bueno y práctico. Eso de módificar el código sólo a un desarrollador se le pudo haber ocurrido… Hasta tuve que compilar el kernel pues estoy en debian 8 y en debian están en la versión 3.16. Muchas gracias ya me estaba dando por vencido.

  2. Any tips on how to fix this issue on a fresh install of VMWare 11.0 with the 3.19 kernel? Maybe i did wrong but i haven’t found the vmnet-only folder and i can’t go through the kernel updater :/ thanks!

    • vmnet.tar can be found in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source. un-tar this to get the vmnet-only directory, apply the changes, and re-tar, before starting vmware..

      RG.

  3. Any chance you could elaborate on this a little please chief? Running a custom 3.19 kernel-pf here and am well experienced in having to fix vmware on Ubuntu but have patched the files as per your instructions and still no luck. Here is the last line of my unhelpful logfile:

    2015-02-20T21:19:56.916Z| vthread-4| W110: Failed to build vmnet. Failed to execute the build command.

    VMware Workstation 11, Ubuntu 14.04.

    Serves me right for upgrading from Workstation 10.

  4. Ok, figured out how to modify the stuff in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source and re-tar it but still no luck. It’s probably a self-inflicted injury (stupid custom kernels…) but any ideas? Previously this and the vmware unlocker have always worked first time for me.

    ghost@failbot:/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source$ sudo vmware-modconfig –console –install-all
    Stopping VMware services:
    VMware Authentication Daemon done
    VM communication interface socket family done
    Virtual machine communication interface done
    Virtual machine monitor done
    Blocking file system done
    Using kernel build system.
    make: Entering directory `/tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only’
    /usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/3.19.0-pf1-meowski+/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
    MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
    make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.19.0-pf1-meowski+’
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/linux/driverLog.o
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/common/apic.o
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/common/comport.o
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/common/hashFunc.o
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1332:1: warning: always_inline function might not be inlinable [-Wattributes]
    LinuxDriverSyncReadTSCs(uint64 *delta) // OUT: TSC max – TSC min
    ^
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/common/task.o
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2054:1: warning: the frame size of 1129 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
    }
    ^
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/vmcore/moduleloop.o
    LD [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/vmmon.o
    Building modules, stage 2.
    MODPOST 1 modules
    CC /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o
    LD [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.19.0-pf1-meowski+’
    /usr/bin/make -C $PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
    MODULEBUILDDIR= postbuild
    make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only’
    make[1]: `postbuild’ is up to date.
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only’
    cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o
    make: Leaving directory `/tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmmon-only’
    Using kernel build system.
    make: Entering directory `/tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only’
    /usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/3.19.0-pf1-meowski+/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
    MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
    make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.19.0-pf1-meowski+’
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.o
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/hub.o
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/userif.o
    CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/netif.o
    In file included from include/linux/pci.h:34:0,
    from /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:27,
    from /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/netif.c:43:
    include/linux/pci_ids.h:2251:0: warning: “PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE” redefined [enabled by default]
    #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE 0x15ad
    ^
    In file included from /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/net.h:38:0,
    from /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:26,
    from /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/netif.c:42:
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/vm_device_version.h:56:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
    #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE 0x15AD
    ^
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c: In function ‘register_ioctl32_handlers’:
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c:310:7: error: implicit declaration of function ‘register_ioctl32_conversion’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
    retval = register_ioctl32_conversion(i, LinuxDriver_Ioctl32_Handler);
    ^
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c:310:47: error: ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl32_Handler’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    retval = register_ioctl32_conversion(i, LinuxDriver_Ioctl32_Handler);
    ^
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c:310:47: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c:315:6: error: implicit declaration of function ‘unregister_ioctl32_conversion’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
    unregister_ioctl32_conversion(j);
    ^
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c:320:16: error: ‘ioctl32_cmds’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    for (i = 0; ioctl32_cmds[i]; i++) {
    ^
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c: In function ‘unregister_ioctl32_handlers’:
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c:372:16: error: ‘ioctl32_cmds’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    for (i = 0; ioctl32_cmds[i]; i++) {
    ^
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c: At top level:
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c:380:2: error: #else without #if
    #else
    ^
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c:383:2: error: #endif without #if
    #endif
    ^
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c:1175:0: error: unterminated #if
    #if defined(HAVE_COMPAT_IOCTL) || defined(HAVE_UNLOCKED_IOCTL)
    ^
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c:304:1: warning: ‘register_ioctl32_handlers’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
    register_ioctl32_handlers(void)
    ^
    /tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.c:361:1: warning: ‘unregister_ioctl32_handlers’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
    unregister_ioctl32_handlers(void)
    ^
    cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
    make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only/driver.o] Error 1
    make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs….
    make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only] Error 2
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.19.0-pf1-meowski+’
    make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
    make: Leaving directory `/tmp/modconfig-q0bvHH/vmnet-only’
    Unable to install all modules. See log for details.

  5. Sorry for the noise, but I fixed it at last and thought I should share:

    1: Uninstall VMware completely.
    2: Delete old files littering /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source with sudo rm -rf ./*only
    3: Reinstall VMware
    4: cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source && sudo tar -xvf vmnet.tar && cd vmnet-only
    5: Apply your patches to driver.c and userif.c
    6: Blow away the old vmnet-only.tar and repackage the fixed versions: sudo rm vmnet.tar && sudo tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
    7: sudo vmware-modconfig –console –install-all
    8: Install VMware update and repeat entire process
    9: Install vmware-unlocker for OSX guest access
    10: Profit!

    Details: Ubuntu 14.04 host, custom 3.19 based on pf-kernel, VMware Workstation 11.1.0 build-2496824.

    Many thanks for your fix chief :]

  6. Thanks for this!

    Just realised that the

    LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 19, 0)

    test fails on the latest Arch stock kernel (3.19.2-1) not sure how or why, but changing the RHS to (3, 18, 0) is a remedial hack for anyone else that runs into this.

  7. I Update to diff for easy use for any one

    diff -aur vmnet-only-orig/driver.c vmnet-only/driver.c
    — vmnet-only-orig/driver.c 2015-03-23 12:41:39.697253589 +0700
    +++ vmnet-only/driver.c 2015-03-23 12:47:41.435822646 +0700
    @@ -265,10 +265,17 @@
    {
    int ret = -ENOTTY;

    – if (filp && filp->f_op && filp->f_op->ioctl == VNetFileOpIoctl) {
    – ret = VNetFileOpIoctl(filp->f_dentry->d_inode, filp, iocmd, ioarg);
    – }
    – return ret;
    + #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE f_op && filp->f_op->ioctl == VNetFileOpIoctl) {
    + ret = VNetFileOpIoctl(filp->f_dentry->d_inode, filp, iocmd, ioarg);
    + }
    + return ret;
    + #else
    + if (filp && filp->f_op && filp->f_op->ioctl == VNetFileOpIoctl) {
    + ret = VNetFileOpIoctl(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode, filp, iocmd, ioarg);
    + }
    + return ret;
    + #endif
    }

    @@ -1191,11 +1198,19 @@
    struct inode *inode = NULL;
    long err;

    – if (filp && filp->f_dentry) {
    – inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
    – }
    – err = VNetFileOpIoctl(inode, filp, iocmd, ioarg);
    – return err;
    + #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE f_dentry) {
    + inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
    + }
    + err = VNetFileOpIoctl(inode, filp, iocmd, ioarg);
    + return err;
    + #else
    + if (filp && filp->f_path.dentry) {
    + inode = filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
    + }
    + err = VNetFileOpIoctl(inode, filp, iocmd, ioarg);
    + return err;
    + #endif
    }
    #endif

    diff -aur vmnet-only-orig/userif.c vmnet-only/userif.c
    — vmnet-only-orig/userif.c 2015-03-23 12:41:39.695253570 +0700
    +++ vmnet-only/userif.c 2015-03-23 12:46:43.106241654 +0700
    @@ -523,7 +523,13 @@
    .iov_base = buf,
    .iov_len = len,
    };
    – return skb_copy_datagram_iovec(skb, 0, &iov, len);
    + #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 19, 0)
    + return skb_copy_datagram_iovec(skb, 0, &iov, len);
    + #else
    + struct iov_iter to;
    + iov_iter_init(&to, READ, &iov, 1, len);
    + return skb_copy_datagram_iter(skb, 0, &to, len);
    + #endif
    }

  8. For ARch users, there is a patch available on the VMware wiki page, for 3.19 kernels.
    Pasting the summary.

    # curl http://pastie.org/pastes/9934018/download -o /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch
    # cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
    # tar -xf vmnet.tar
    # patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch
    # tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
    # vmware-modconfig –console –install-all

  9. Linux localhost.localdomain 3.19.1-201.fc21.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 18 04:29:24 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    I had the same problem.

    1. # – as root user
    $ cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
    $ tar -xvf vmnet.tar

    2. Edit the driver.c and userif.c as instructed above.
    3. $ tar -cvf vmnet.tar vmnet-only/
    $ rm -rf vmnet-only/
    $ vmware-modconfig –console –install-all

    after that, player started with no problem.
    thanks!!

  10. Upon installing vmware workstation 10.0.5 this morning, just after 15.04’s release, I made the changes that the OP mentioned, but there’s one additional change that needs to be made as well.

    After making changes to driver.c and userif.c, I was still getting this error:

    /tmp/modconfig-t7rj7B/vmnet-only/netif.c:152:64: error: macro “alloc_netdev” requires 4 arguments, but only 3 given
    dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof *netIf, deviceName, VNetNetIfSetup);

    In order to fix this, before I re-tarred up the vmnet.tar file, I also changed netif.c in the following way:

    Around line 152, i changed this:
    dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof *netIf, deviceName, VNetNetIfSetup);
    to this:
    dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof *netIf, deviceName, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, VNetNetIfSetup);

    This fixed the issue. I found this solution here: http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1184

  11. I am frustrated. I am trying to run VMWare Workstation 9.0.4 on Kubuntu 15.04 kernel 3.19-0-16-generic and have tried all of the patches listed here. Nothing will get this thing working. Has anybody else done this with the same version I am using? Any more suggestions?

    Thanks, Ken

  12. I can’t find anything on getting VMware 9.x working.. Seems from the post above that 10.x can be made to work, but that seems to be the oldest working version with later kernels..

    RG.

    • Thanks,

      I went to VirtualBox and everything works fine. It seems I threw a bunch of money in the trash by paying for VmWare. 🙁

  13. Firstly – thanks.

    Secondly, here’s the unified diff patch:
    diff -u vmnet-only/driver.c vmnet-only.patched/driver.c
    — vmnet-only/driver.c 2015-02-07 11:54:17.000000000 +1100
    +++ vmnet-only.patched/driver.c 2015-06-08 01:25:05.832361550 +1000
    @@ -266,7 +266,11 @@
    int ret = -ENOTTY;

    if (filp && filp->f_op && filp->f_op->ioctl == VNetFileOpIoctl) {
    +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE f_dentry->d_inode, filp, iocmd, ioarg);
    +#else
    + ret = VNetFileOpIoctl(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode, filp, iocmd, ioarg);
    +#endif
    }
    return ret;
    }
    @@ -1191,8 +1195,13 @@
    struct inode *inode = NULL;
    long err;

    +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE f_dentry) {
    inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
    +#else
    + if (filp && filp->f_path.dentry) {
    + inode = filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
    +#endif
    }
    err = VNetFileOpIoctl(inode, filp, iocmd, ioarg);
    return err;
    diff -u vmnet-only/userif.c vmnet-only.patched/userif.c
    — vmnet-only/userif.c 2015-02-07 11:54:17.000000000 +1100
    +++ vmnet-only.patched/userif.c 2015-06-08 01:22:28.320719458 +1000
    @@ -523,7 +523,13 @@
    .iov_base = buf,
    .iov_len = len,
    };
    +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 19, 0)
    return skb_copy_datagram_iovec(skb, 0, &iov, len);
    +#else
    + struct iov_iter to;
    + iov_iter_init(&to, READ, &iov, 1, len);
    + return skb_copy_datagram_iter(skb, 0, &to, len);
    +#endif
    }

    Prepared patch for VMware player 7.1 on Ubuntu vivid 15.04:

    $ patch -p0 < vmware-7.1.0-build-2496824-3.19.0-20-generic.patch
    patching file vmnet-only/driver.c
    patching file vmnet-only/userif.c

  14. found another bug in filter.c (ubuntu 15.04 – kernel 3.19.0-15-generic #15)

    need change forward declaration:

    **** old *****

    /* netfilter hooks for filtering. */
    static nf_hookfn VNetFilterHookFn;

    **** new *****

    /* netfilter hooks for filtering. */
    static unsigned int
    VNetFilterHookFn(unsigned int hooknum, // IN:
    #ifdef VMW_NFHOOK_USES_SKB
    struct sk_buff *skb, // IN:
    #else
    struct sk_buff **pskb, // IN:
    #endif
    const struct net_device *in, // IN:
    const struct net_device *out, // IN:
    int (*okfn)(struct sk_buff *)); // IN:

  15. 6.0.1 build-1379776

    Excellent information
    After all of above changes were completed and placed into the vmnet.tar file all worked fine.

  16. Works like a charm with Antix15 + VMware-Workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64 bundle/Linux.
    And to think I was about to give up, now I’m going to try it with VMware-Workstation-Full-12.1.0-3272444.x86_64 instead.

    Thanks a billion for your excellent post & also to mr.meowski for and brilliant Howto list.

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