Updated to Kernel 3.17-rc4, and the vmnet-patched VMware (10.0.3) and latest NVIDIA (340.32) all compile/load OK..    See previous -rc3 article for details of the patch.. $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.17.0-rc4 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep 7 22:33:23 PDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Details of the changes are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1409.0/04463.html Robert Gadsdon.  September 8, 2014. … Continue reading →