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VMware – 15.1.0 released. Still broken, but Fix available

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VMware 15.1.0 is out, and release notes are here:  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/15/rn/VMware-Workstation-151-Pro-Release-Notes.html Sadly, vmmon/vmnet install still fails (tested with Kernel 5.1.2), but a fix is already available – thanks once again to Michal Kubeček – at: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-15.1.0 I have tested this, and VMware now runs OK, again.. Robert Gadsdon,   May 15 2019. … Continue reading →

Kernel – 4.18-rc1 released – Breaks NVIDIA, Fix Available.. Not OK with VMware

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Kernel 4.18-rc1 has been released – earlier than expected, but Linus is in Japan, where it was already Sunday.. Brief details are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1806.2/00125.html Tested with VMware 14.1.2, and vmmon/vmnet compile OK, but NVIDIA fails: …………………………. CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.67/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.o In file included from /usr/src/linux-4.18-rc1/include/drm/drmP.h:82, from /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.67/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-priv.h:30, from /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.67/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:25: /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.67/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:637:23: error: ‘DRM_CONTROL_ALLOW’ undeclared here (not in a function); … Continue reading →

VMware – Patch, If You Need Better ‘Meltdown/Spectre’ Protection..

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Thanks – again – to Michal Kubeček, who  has pointed out that there is still a vulnerability in some VMware (vmmon) code, that is not mitigated by Kernel/Compiler retpoline fixes, as it is written in assembler..   ( See comment on previous article – http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2277 ) He has provided an appropriate fix for this, at https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/player-14.1.1 Robert Gadsdon.   … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Kernel 4.11 Fix Available, but not ‘Legal’..

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There is a fix/patch available now, for NVIDIA driver 378.13 on Kernel 4.11, but it involves modifying the licence on NVIDIA code, and so is not legal.. Details – and links to discussions – here:  https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/995636/?comment=5101210 Some previous changes to Kernel code enforcing GPL-only licensing had been reverted, but looking at the correspondence on the Linux Kernel … Continue reading →

ARM64 – Catastrophic Compile Errors with 4.10-rc1 – and a Fix..

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Tried compiling Kernel 4.10-rc1 for aarch64, and got – literally – hundreds of errors: …… ./include/linux/sched.h:3299: Error: unknown mnemonic `return’ — `return test_ti_thread_flag(task_thread_info(tsk),flag)’ ./include/linux/sched.h:3300: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `}’ ./include/linux/sched.h:3302: Error: unknown mnemonic `static’ — `static inline void set_tsk_need_resched(struct task_struct*tsk)’ ./include/linux/sched.h:3303: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is … Continue reading →

VMware – 12.5.2 Released – Still Broken With Kernel 4.9..

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Just updated the test system to VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.2, and it still fails to compile with Kernel 4.9-rc5 I have – so far – been unable to find any other patches for this issue, but fortunately the nasty hack I documented in the article for 4.9-rc4 still works.. http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1838 The release notes for 12.5.2 are here:  … Continue reading →

Kernel – Welcome to Linux 4.0? VMware (Patched) OK, NVIDIA Fix Available..

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Just tested Kernel 4.0-rc1 – announced here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.2/04059.html As you will see – not much actual detail on what has changed, and I have already run into a couple of ‘issues’… The Radeon drm driver on my laptop refuses to load, and the boot hangs immediately with drm r600_ring_test [radeon] *ERROR* radeon: ring 0 test failed (scratch(0x8504)=0xFFFFFFFF) … Continue reading →