Installed Kernel 3.16-rc4 on the test system, and VMware (10.0.3) and NVIDIA (340.17) both install/run OK.. The VMware update is – according to the Release Notes – just a security fix for OpenSSL.. https://www.vmware.com/support/ws10/doc/workstation-1003-release-notes.html Kernel changes for -rc4 are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1407.0/03694.html # uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 3.16.0-rc4 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 6 15:50:25 PDT 2014 x86_64 … Continue reading →