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VMware – Simple Fixes for Kernel 6.15-rc..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on April 20, 2025 by RGApril 20, 2025

With clues from the NVIDIA patches in the previous article, I have managed to find/create patches for vmmon and vmnet.. vmmon failed with: ……………… common/crosspage.c:50:13: fatal error: driver-config.h: No such file or directory 50 | # include “driver-config.h” | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. common/moduleloop.c:30:13: fatal error: driver-config.h: No such file or directory 30 | # include “driver-config.h” | … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Hacks, kernel, Linux, Opinion, VMware | Tagged 17.6.3, archlinux, complie fail, del_timer_sync, extra_ccflags, fixed, kernel 6.15, patches created, vmmon, vmnet, vmware | 2 Replies

Kernel – 6.14 – a Bit Late, but OK with Latest NVIDIA and VMware..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 24, 2025 by RGMarch 24, 2025

Kernel 6.14 has been released – a bit later than usual – and brief details are here:  https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2503.3/00718.html As expected after -rc testing, this release works OK with the latest NVIDIA 570.133.07 and VMware 17.6.3.. Robert Gadsdon.    March 24th 2025. … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, VMware | Tagged 17.6.3, 570.133.07, kernel 6.14, ok with nvidia, released, vmware | Leave a reply

VMware Workstation – Multiple Patch Forks Since Broadcom..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 15, 2024 by RGSeptember 15, 2024

I would like to start by thanking Michal Kubeček for his many years of expert support of the VMware vmmon/vmnet modules for later kernel versions.. Since the Broadcom takeover of VMware, his patches have been forked multiple times, for 17.5.2 and now 17.6 support, with varying degrees of success..    I have tested most of these and – … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Hacks, Linux, Opinion, Performance, VMware | Tagged 17.6, available, broadcom, forks, patches, vmmon / vmnet, vmware | 4 Replies

VMware – Licence Changes, and Fixes for Kernel 6.9..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 23, 2024 by RGMay 23, 2024

After the Broadcom takeover, the ‘Player’ versions of VMware are discontinued, and Workstation Pro is now ‘free for personal use’… It has been updated to version 17.5.2, but the changes are all for security patches, and overall functionality is unchanged. There has been some discussion as to whether this product is now ‘functionally stabilised’, with some commenting … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Fedora, fix, KDE, Linux, VMware, Wayland | Tagged 17.5.2, free for personal use, kernel 6.9 vmnet fix, vmware | 1 Reply

VMware – Kernel 6.5 Patch now in Default Patchset.

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 30, 2023 by RGSeptember 30, 2023

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 →

Posted in fix, kernel, Linux, Opinion, VMware | Tagged get_user_pages, in default patchset, patch for kernel 6.5, vmware | Leave a reply

VMware – Patching Made Easy..?

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 2, 2023 by RGSeptember 2, 2023

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 →

Posted in kernel, Linux, Opinion, patches, VMware | Tagged easy install, howto, patched, vmware | 1 Reply

VMware – Fix/Workaround for Kernel 6.5..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 21, 2023 by RGAugust 21, 2023

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 →

Posted in compilation, fix, kernel, Linux, Opinion, patches, VMware | Tagged fix/workaround, kernel 6.5, tested, vmmon, vmware | 1 Reply

VMware – VMMON Workaround for Kernel 6.5..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 10, 2023 by RGAugust 10, 2023

Thanks to Jeff Chua, there is a practical workaround for vmmon with Kernel 6.5, and this can be found at: https://github.com/jeffersonchua/linux-6.5.0/blob/main/patch-17.0.2-6.5.0   My apologies to Jeff, for the WordPress mangling of code in his previous comments on my earlier article… I have applied this patch, and VMware Workstation 17.0.2 now loads/runs OK with Kernel 6.5-rc5 on my test system.. … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, fix, kernel, Linux, Opinion, patches, VMware | Tagged kernel 6.5, more discussions, vmmon compile fail, vmware, workaround available | Leave a reply

VMware – Still No Solution for Kernel 6.5..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 6, 2023 by RGAugust 6, 2023

Updated to Kernel 6.5-rc5, and – as expected – vmmon still fails to compile: CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-s9HCQR/vmmon-only/bootstrap/vmmblob.o LD [M] /tmp/modconfig-s9HCQR/vmmon-only/vmmon.o MODPOST /tmp/modconfig-s9HCQR/vmmon-only/Module.symvers ERROR: modpost: “__pte_offset_map” [/tmp/modconfig-s9HCQR/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko] undefined! make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:144: /tmp/modconfig-s9HCQR/vmmon-only/Module.symvers] Error 1 make[2]: *** [/usr/src/linux-6.5-rc5/Makefile:1984: modpost] Error 2 make[1]: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/usr/src/linux-6.5-rc5’ make: *** [Makefile:117: vmmon.ko] Error 2 I did … Continue reading →

Posted in kernel, Linux, Opinion, patches, VMware | Tagged compile fail, kernel 6.5, no solution found, undefined, vmmon, vmware, __pte_offset_map | 14 Replies

VMware – Convoluted Guest Freeze Fix…

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on January 20, 2022 by RGJanuary 20, 2022

I had been struggling for some considerable time with guest (Win10) performance issues with VMware – including application (Photoshop CS6) ‘freezing’ for a time, and overall very sluggish responses.. I had found several articles that suggested cause/effect/fix for this, but none really worked.. I made changes to control khugepaged: …………………….. [root@rglinux820 ~]$ echo never | tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag … Continue reading →

Posted in Hacks, kernel, Linux, Opinion, Performance, VMware | Tagged fixes, guset freeze, kcompactd0, transparent_hugepage, vmware | 2 Replies

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