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 →
Kernel 5.8 is out, and details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2008.0/00586.html The (patched) VMware 15.5.6 vmmon/vmnet modules compile OK, and the latest NVIDIA driver 450.57 compiles and runs OK. However…. I cannot upgrade my main systems, as the catastrophic VMware runtime reboot still occurs, as mentioned in previous articles: $ uname -a Linux rgz220 5.8.0 #2 SMP Sun Aug … Continue reading →
Since the release of Kernel 5.8-rc1, any attempt I made to run a VMware client on that host system has failed catastrophically. ( see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2753 ) and the problem still persists, with 5.8-rc6. I had posted brief details of the issue on the VMware forum some weeks ago, but there has been no useful response. https://communities.vmware.com/thread/638457 I … Continue reading →