Kernel – 5.18 released – OK with latest NVIDIA, and Patched VMware..
Kernel 5.18 is out, and brief details are here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2205.2/08834.html
As expected, the latest NVIDIA driver – 515.43.04 – compiles and loads/runs OK, and the 5.18-patched vmmon/vmnet for VMware 16.2.3 is OK. The VMware patchset for 5.18 is still at https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/tmp/workstation-16.2.3-k5.18 , but the changes should eventually be applied to the standard 16.2.3 patch.
Robert Gadsdon.. May 22nd, 2022.
“git checkout -f tmp/workstation-16.2.3-k5.18” and it built on my machine
the git link is broken… where can I find the patches ?
https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-16.2.3
The URL format is for VMware release patches, the testing ones are kept in /tmp/ where available.
RG
I have been able to previously recompile the vmware modules with the help of that git repo, but couldn’t this time. I downloaded the 16.2.3 branch and ran make and sudo make install, as per the instructions. VmWare runs, but when I try to open a machine I get “Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon’ is loaded.” (followed by some other errors). Any ideas?