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Kernel – 5.8-rc3 – VMware Runtime Still Reboots..

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Updated to Kernel 5.8-rc3, and the reboot problem with VMware 15.5.6 still persists.   Tested with Fedora ‘Rawhide’ kernel 5.8.0-0.rc2.20200625git8be3a53e18e0.1.fc33.x86_64, with same failure.    Details posted to VMware VMTN some days ago, but no response so far.. As another data point, even tested with old VMware 14.1.7 and Kernel 5.8-rc2, and the same problem occurred. Robert Gadsdon.  July 1st, … Continue reading →

Kernel – 5.8-rc1 Released – Problem with VMware Runtime..

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Kernel 5.8-rc1 has been released, and details are here:   http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2006.1/07293.html NVIDIA 440.82 with the 5.7 and 5.8 patches seems to be OK, but I have encountered a serious problem with VMware, and have now confirmed the same fault on two different systems (both Fedora 32 x86_64) The VMware 15.5.6 vmmon/vmnet modules compile/run OK with the kernel 5.7 … Continue reading →