Kernel 6.7-rc1 has been released, and brief details are here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/11/12/352 After some pre-testing last week, the latest NVIDIA 545.29.02 and VMware 17.5.0 with the latest patchset ( https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-17.5.0 ) still compile/load OK.. Robert Gadsdon. November 13th 2023. … Continue reading →
Kernel 6.6 has been released, and brief details are here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2310.3/06370.html As expected, the latest NVIDIA 545.23.06 and VMware compile OK, but VMware 17.5.0 needs the latest patchset, to avoid reported issues.. The patchset can be found here: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-17.5.0 Robert Gadsdon. October 30th 2023. … Continue reading →
After more discussions and testing, it has been reported that the ‘official’ VMware 17.5.0 fix for kernels 6.5 and later may cause some problems.. This has led to the latest version of the 17.5.0 patchset now incorporating the ‘get_user_pages‘ fix from the previous 17.0.2 patchset, and the reasons behind this can be found here: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/commit/4c2a103fd2d71f2084f1fe7ceacb816b9832ffa2 The patchset … Continue reading →
VMware have just released Workstation 17.5.0, and release notes are here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/17.5/rn/vmware-workstation-175-pro-release-notes/index.html No mention is made of newer host kernel compatibility, but this version does address some linux-related issues.. Compiles with Kernels 6.5.8 and 6.6-rc6 – with some warnings.. These can be removed by the latest patchset, at: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-17.5.0 Robert Gadsdon. October 20th 2023.. … Continue reading →
After much testing, over several weeks, the ‘get_user_pages‘ solution for Kernels 6.5 and later is now in the default patchset, at: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-17.0.2 . For more details, see the comments at the start of the patch code for the vmmon changes.. vmmon: use get_user_pages to get page PFN Robert Gadsdon. September 30th 2023. … Continue reading →
Kernel 6.6-rc1 is out, and brief details are here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/9/10/185 I had done some previous testing with earlier 6.6-rc GIT versions, and confirm that the latest NVIDIA (535.104.05) and the 6.5-patched VMware 17.0.2 workaround all seem to be working as expected.. The VMware patchset can be found at https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/tmp/workstation-17.0.2-k6.5 and it should be emphasised that this is … Continue reading →
As there is almost always a need to apply the most recent patchset to releases of VMware vmmon/vmnet to support the latest kernels, it might be useful to document a process for making this (relatively..) easy: VMMON and VMNET are picked up during the vmware-modconfig… command, from /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source, and this process expects to find vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar … Continue reading →
Kernel 6.5 is out, and brief details are here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/8/27/348 The latest NVIDIA driver is OK, and can be found here: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/210649/en-us/ The workaround/fix for VMware 17.0.2 is also OK, as far as I can tell (briefly tested with Win11 client..) and can be found here: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/tmp/workstation-17.0.2-k6.5 As previously mentioned, this is still classified as a temporary … Continue reading →
Kernel 6.5 is due to be released soon, but there has been an ongoing issue with vmmon, and there is now a workaround/fix included with the updated patchset, at https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/tmp/workstation-17.0.2-k6.5 I have tested this with Kernel 6.5-rc7, and everything appears to work as it should.. There may be other changes in the future, as the solution is … Continue reading →
Kernel 6.4.10 includes a backported change from the 6.5-rc branch, and this breaks the vmnet 17.0.2 compile.. The fix is to replicate the same logic from the 6.5 ‘tmp’ branch, at https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/blob/tmp/workstation-17.0.2-k6.5/vmnet-only/bridge.c – around line 47.. For some odd reason, this did not behave correctly on my system, and so I modified/simplified the kernel-version-test portion of … Continue reading →