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Kernel – 5.9-rc5 – Patched VMware Still OK, NVIDIA still ‘Tainted’..

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Kernel 5.9-rc5 is out, and brief details are here:   http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2009.1/06650.html

The patched vmmon/vmnet for VMware 15.5.6 still work OK, and the workaround for the runtime segfault etc. is in a previous article, here: https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2819 .    Note that the 5.8/5.9 fix is now incorporated in the usual 15.5.6 patchset, here:  https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-15.5.6

NVIDIA with the partial 5.8/5.9 patches still suffers from the ‘taint’ problem, but can be installed – without CUDA – by using the --no-unified-memory  option..

Robert Gadsdon.   September 12th 2020.

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Kernel – 5.9-rc5 – Patched VMware Still OK, NVIDIA still ‘Tainted’.. — 2 Comments

  1. I’m running RHEL 8 and with both 5.8.9 and 5.9-rc5 I still get segfaults on starting vmplayer with the 15.5.6 patchset

    Thanks for all the hard work.

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