Thanks to craigacgomez on the VMware Forum, there is a hack to fix VMware (vmnet) with Kernel 4.2.. https://communities.vmware.com/thread/516196 I made some more changes, to make it backward-compatible, and it seems to work OK with Kernels 4.1.3 and 4.2-rc4.. I should emphasize that I am an amateur at such things, but if you want to try this, … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.1 has been released, with not many changes from -rc8… Brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.2/04143.html $ uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 4.1.0 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 23:00:39 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux As expected, the latest VMware (11.1.2) and NVIDIA (352.21) compile and load/run OK, without the need for any patches.. Robert Gadsdon. June 21, … Continue reading →
Just updated VMware to the latest version 11.1.2 on the test system, and it compiles/loads OK with Kernel 4.1-rc8.. Release notes are here: https://www.vmware.com/support/ws/doc/workstation-1112-release-notes.html. At last, there is no need for the venerable vmnet patch (required since Kernel 3.19 was released..).. Robert Gadsdon. June 18, 2015.
Continue reading →As expected, Kernel 4.1-rc8 is out, and the same comments regarding VMware and NVIDIA apply as for -rc7.. https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1471 $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc8 #1 SMP Sun Jun 14 23:48:07 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Brief details of changes from -rc7 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.1/04926.html 4.1 ‘Final’ should be out soon, probably within the next week … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.1-rc7, and the ‘vmnet-patched‘ version of VMware 11.1, and the latest NVIDIA drivers (346.72, and 352.09), compile and install/run OK, as expected.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc7 #1 SMP Mon Jun 8 10:50:51 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Brief details of changes from -rc6 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.0/04895.html As … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to Kernel 4.1-rc6, and – as previously – the ‘vmnet-patched‘ version of VMware 11.1, and the latest NVIDIA drivers (346.72, and 352.09) compile and install/run OK.. $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc6 #1 SMP Mon Jun 1 09:01:13 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Details of changes from -rc5 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1505.3/05020.html Robert … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.1-rc4, and this is OK with the latest NVIDIA drivers (346.72 and 352.09) and with vmnet-patched VMware 11.1.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc4 #1 SMP Mon May 18 16:00:31 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Details of changes from -rc3 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1505.2/01224.html Robert Gadsdon. May 18, 2015.
Continue reading →Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.1-rc3, and confirmed that this is now OK with the latest NVIDIA drivers, and includes the change to linux/arch/x86/kernel/process.c as detailed in a previous article. Patched VMware 11.x is OK, as before.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc3 #1 SMP Mon May 11 07:10:01 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux … Continue reading →
I should have known that 4.1-rc1 would show up just after I published my linux-next article, and here it is.. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/testing/linux-4.1-rc1.tar.xz $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sun Apr 26 18:56:05 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1504.3/01263.html As with linux-next from April 24, the (patched) VMware 11.1.0 compiled and loaded … Continue reading →
As Kernel 4.1-rc1 is not released yet, I tested the April 24 version of linux-next, to see how VMware and NVIDIA compiles would behave.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.0.0-next-20150424 #2 SMP Sun Apr 26 12:04:54 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux With this version, VMware 11.1 (with the 3.19 vmnet patch) compiled and loaded OK, but … Continue reading →