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VMware – Fix for Kernel 4.2..?

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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 →

VMware 11 – Fix for vmnet and Kernel 3.19..

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Thanks to Al Viro, and to coderus on the VMware forum, we now have a solution for vmnet and Kernel 3.19, as follows: In vmnet-only/driver.c (lines 269, 1194, and 1195): Replace instances of f_dentry with f_path.dentry In vmnet-only/userif.c (line 526): Replace    return skb_copy_datagram_iovec(skb, 0, &iov, len); with    struct iov_iter to;    iov_iter_init(&to, READ, &iov, 1, … Continue reading →