3.8-rc5 Already – Works with Patched / Softlinked VMware, and ‘Old’ NVIDIA..
Just installed kernel 3.8-rc5 – recently released..
This release has the same dependencies as -rc4, for VMware and NVIDIA..
For VMware, apply Tim’s vmci patch (see previous article for -rc4) and use the softlink:
$ ln -s /usr/src/linux-3.8-rc5/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-3.8-rc5/include/linux/version.h
For NVIDIA, use the ‘old’ driver 310.14, as the newer 3.7-compatible drivers still won’t compile with 3.8..
$ uname -a
Linux rg6830l 3.8.0-rc5 #1 SMP Fri Jan 25 21:13:42 GMT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Robert Gadsdon. January 25th, 2013.
Hi,
Using Arch with kernel 3.8-rc5. Applied the patch : http://ix.io/4fh with this script : http://ix.io/4fi and I always get errors : http://ix.io/4fj
Could you help me please ?
Thanks !
bioman
Looks like the script only re-tars vmmon.. (…tar cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only || exit 6)
The patch is for vmci, but the patch never gets applied properly, using that script. I patched vmci ‘manually’ – see my comment under http://rglinuxtech.com/2013/01/18/3-8-rc4-vmware-problem-but-old-nvidia-still-ok/ for more info..
I thank you man 🙂
Works with 3.8-rc6 too but… I encounter really slow Workstation 9.0.1 (i7 990@4.32GHz 😉 )
Is it the case for you ? Have you some kind of miracle stuff to make it run as usual ?
Thanks !
I haven’t tested ‘performance’ yet.. What ‘guest’ OS are you using?
Hi,
Using ArchLinux here 🙂
[quote]For NVIDIA, use the ‘old’ driver 310.14, as the newer 3.7-compatible drivers still won’t compile with 3.8.[/quote]
This is not true. I just compiled 310.32 with 3.8.0-rc4
– But it _was_ true when this (old) post was written, and 310.32 did not exist!
You should read my newer post, which confirms that 310.32 works with 3.8-rc6..