{"id":1279,"date":"2015-01-23T07:23:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T07:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2015-01-23T07:23:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T07:23:09","slug":"vmware-11-fix-for-vmnet-and-kernel-3-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"VMware 11 – Fix for vmnet and Kernel 3.19.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Al Viro, and to coderus<\/em><\/strong> on the VMware forum, we now have a solution for vmnet and Kernel 3.19, as follows:<\/p>\n

In vmnet-only\/driver.c <\/strong>(lines 269, 1194, and 1195):<\/p>\n

Replace instances of f_dentry<\/strong> with f_path.dentry<\/strong><\/pre>\n
In vmnet-only\/userif.c <\/strong>(line 526):<\/p>\n
Replace \r\n\u00a0\u00a0 return skb_copy_datagram_iovec(skb, 0, &iov, len);<\/strong>\r\nwith\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 struct iov_iter to;<\/strong>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 iov_iter_init(&to, READ, &iov, 1, len);<\/strong>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 return skb_copy_datagram_iter(skb, 0, &to, len);<\/strong><\/pre>\n
The VMware forum thread can be found here: https:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/message\/2469395<\/a><\/p>\n
I have made these changes on my test system with Kernel 3.19-rc5<\/strong>, and VMware 11.0 (including vmnet) now compiles and loads\/runs OK..<\/p>\n
Note that for a complete<\/span> solution, backward compatible with kernels prior to 3.19, then if\/then\/else<\/em> tests for kernel version, and including the ‘old’ or<\/span> ‘new’ code, will have to be added..<\/p>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 January 22, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 \u00a0\u00a0 return skb_copy_datagram_iovec(skb, 0, &iov, len); with \u00a0\u00a0 struct iov_iter to; \u00a0\u00a0 iov_iter_init(&to, READ, &iov, 1, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,11,14,15,25],"tags":[988,986,1175,989,987,961],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-vmware","tag-driver-c","tag-kernel-3-19","tag-success","tag-userif-c","tag-vmnet-fix","tag-vmware-11-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}