With thanks to huyz for the notification – there is now a patch from baryonix available for VMware 15.5.6 and Kernel 5.8.. The patch is available here: https://github.com/baryonix/vmware-host-modules/tree/fixes-for-5.8 I have – briefly – tested this with Kernel 5.8.5, and it was successful.. As the usual # vmware and # vmware-modconfig still segfault, then vmmon/vmnet have to be … Continue reading →
Fedora 33 will be using ZRAM as standard for swap, rather than a partition or swapfile on disk. I had no problem with this on a new F33 install (Odroid H2Plus) but after upgrading an existing Fedora 32 system it refused to initialise, and ‘/dev/zram0‘ did not exist. Research revealed that the documentation for much of this … Continue reading →
I have been testing Fedora 33 pre-release, and on x86_64 it seems relatively stable (usual caveats…) but on arm64 systems (Odroid N2 and Pi4) I found that after compiling a new kernel (5.8.3), the system booted, but login was impossible, and screen output was missing (uart/console was OK). Kernels compiled with Fedora 32 all booted OK, and … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.9-rc2 is out, and brief details of changes since -rc1 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2008.2/10710.html The patched VMware 16 prerelease versions of vmmon and vmnet compile OK, but any further tests will have to wait until the release of Workstation 16 in about a months time.. NVIDIA 450.66 can be made to (almost..) work, by applying the 5.9 … Continue reading →
VMware have announced the release of Workstation Pro 16: https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2020/08/announcing-workstation-16-and-fusion-12.html From various comments seen elsewhere, it would appear that WS 16 should include fixes for Kernel 5.8/5.9 runtime compatibility.. Actual release date is – so far – vague, but may be sometime towards the end of September.. Robert Gadsdon. August 21st 2020. … Continue reading →
There is a new driver 450.66 available, and details are here: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/163238/en-us No patch – yet – and there is an issue with the old ‘GPL block’ again.. https://gitlab.com/EULA/snippets/-/commit/9c295c9b9b9453de00941a5c84cb3c9385eafe6e I had just tested the latest version of the 5.9 patch for NVIDIA driver 450.57, and it compiled OK, but loading was problem, and the mouse ‘wobbled’ all … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.9-rc1 is out, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2008.2/00223.html As expected, VMware is still broken, and fails/reboots when a VM start is attempted. Vmnet, with the latest patch, compiles OK, and there is a patch for vmmon and Kernel 5.9 available, for the Workstation 16 early-release, here: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/tmp/workstation-16 With regard to NVIDIA, the interim patch for … Continue reading →
There is already an early NVIDIA 450.57 patch for Kernel 5.9, and thanks to Pete for the info, and Isaak I. Aleksandrov for the patch .. This was not shown in the general list I had at https://gitlab.com/users/EULA/snippets, but the direct link is here: https://gitlab.com/EULA/snippets/-/blob/55de41ae16851dc0fc7973901c1f71007b2a4efb/NVIDIA/450.57/kernel-5.9.patch I have tested this with the August 9th pre-release I used in … Continue reading →
After all the excitement around the release of Kernel 5.8, I ran some tests on the work-in-progress git version (August 9th) of Kernel 5.9-rc1. Obviously, there are more changes to come before RC1 is actually released.. NVIDIA 450.57 compile fails: ……………………. CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/nv-kthread-q.o CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/nv-kthread-q-selftest.o CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8.o In file included from /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8.c:31: /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_va_range.h: In … Continue reading →
I have been investigating alternatives, as VMware is currently a non-starter (literally..) with Kernel 5.8.. I installed the latest VirtualBox (6.1.97 r139689) from SVN (another blast from the past…) and managed – after some messing around – to get it to compile OK on my Fedora 32 test system with Kernel 5.8 (from kernel.org..) I had … Continue reading →