Kernel – 5.6 Released. Still OK with latest patched VMware and NVIDIA.
Kernel 5.6 is out, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2003.3/06474.html
Compiles OK, but I am getting a spurious ‘cat: /sys/power/resume: No such file or directory‘ message after #make install. Everything seems to be working as expected, despite this.
For those who need it (digital photography/video etc..) ‘exFAT fs support’ is now available, and can be found under ‘Staging drivers’.
Robert Gadsdon. March 29th 2020.
vmware-15.5.2 vmmon-only can’t compile after updating to linux-5.6.0 (commit 673b41e04a035d760bc0aff83fa9ee24fd9c2779)
Any patch for this?
Thanks,
Jeff
The patches at https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-15.5.2 should work OK with Kernel 5.x – and I have VMware 15.5.2 – with these patches – working correctly on kernel 5.6.1 at the moment.
RG.
> The patches at https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-15.5.2 should work OK with Kernel 5.x – and I have VMware 15.5.2 – with these patches – working correctly on kernel 5.6.1 at the moment.
RG.
Amazing! That worked!
Thank you!
Jeff
It’s a bit surprising, though. Unpatched 15.5.2 sources build with a lot of warnings but the build should not fail against any kernel up to current mainline. I’m aware of only two problems that could result in build failures; one would require manually setting LOGLEVEL >= 4, the other only affects distributions which backported skb_frag_t rewrite into kernel 5.3 or older (and then vmnet build would fail, not vmmon).