{"id":1736,"date":"2016-05-18T08:21:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T07:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2016-05-18T08:21:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T07:21:43","slug":"vmware-12-1-1-not-very-impressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; 12.1.1 &#8211; Not Very Impressed.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VMware Workstation <strong>12.1.1<\/strong> is out, but still needs the same patches (<em>vmmon<\/em> and <em>vmnet<\/em>) for Kernel 4.6 as 12.1.0, and the update also (<strong>still..!<\/strong>.) breaks the front-end gui (<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>\/usr\/bin\/vmware<\/strong><\/span>) on Fedora 23..<\/p>\n<p>Release Notes for 12.1.1 are here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.vmware.com\/Release_Notes\/en\/workstation\/12pro\/workstation-1211-release-notes.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/pubs.vmware.com\/Release_Notes\/en\/workstation\/12pro\/workstation-1211-release-notes.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kernel 4.6 patch details are here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1706\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1706<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fix for<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"> \/usr\/bin\/vmware<\/span><\/strong> on Fedora 23 is almost the same as before (From my article back in in November 2015: <a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1601\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1601<\/a> ):<\/p>\n<p>As root, go to <span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>\/usr\/lib\/vmware\/lib<\/strong><\/span>, and then:<\/p>\n<pre><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"># cp -afv \/usr\/lib64\/libgio-2.0.so.0.4600.2 libgio-2.0.so.0\/libgio-2.0.so.0<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"># cp -afv \/usr\/lib64\/libglib-2.0.so.0.4600.2 libglib-2.0.so.0\/libglib-2.0.so.0<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"># cp -afv \/usr\/lib64\/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4600.2 libgmodule-2.0.so.0\/libgmodule-2.0.so.0<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"># cp -afv \/usr\/lib64\/libgobject-2.0.so.0.4600.2 libgobject-2.0.so.0\/libgobject-2.0.so.0<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"># cp -afv \/usr\/lib64\/libgthread-2.0.so.0.4600.2 libgthread-2.0.so.0\/libgthread-2.0.so.0<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>This time, there is no need to use <strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"># VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=force vmware<\/span><\/strong>, and you can just run <strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">\/usr\/bin\/vmware<\/span><\/strong> as normal..<\/p>\n<p>As was mentioned in the comments to my original article, there may be alternate fixes for different Distros, but this one still works for me, with Fedora 23..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon\u00a0\u00a0 May 17, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware Workstation 12.1.1 is out, but still needs the same patches (vmmon and vmnet) for Kernel 4.6 as 12.1.0, and the update also (still..!.) breaks the front-end gui (\/usr\/bin\/vmware) on Fedora 23.. Release Notes for 12.1.1 are here:\u00a0 https:\/\/pubs.vmware.com\/Release_Notes\/en\/workstation\/12pro\/workstation-1211-release-notes.html Kernel 4.6 patch details are here:\u00a0 https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1706 The fix for \/usr\/bin\/vmware on Fedora 23 is almost the same <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1736\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[5,6,10,1238,11,15,19,25],"tags":[1362,1361,1360],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-fedora","category-fix","category-hacks","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-fix-for-gui-on-fedora","tag-needs-patch-for-kernel-4-6","tag-vmware-12-1-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","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=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}