{"id":1748,"date":"2016-05-31T06:21:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T05:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2016-05-31T06:21:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T05:21:18","slug":"vmware-possible-kernel-4-7-fix-for-12-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1748","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; Possible Kernel 4.7 Fix for 12.1.1.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <strong><em>g<\/em><\/strong>, from their comment on my previous article ( <a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1746\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1746<\/a> ), there may be a more correct <strong>vmnet<\/strong> fix than simply &#8216;commenting out the code&#8217;..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Replace <strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">dev-&gt;trans_start = jiffies<\/span><\/strong> with\u00a0\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">netif_trans_update(dev)<\/span><\/strong> in <strong>netif.c<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have made this change, and VMware 12.1.1 is &#8211; so far &#8211; loading and running OK, as usual..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 May 30, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to g, from their comment on my previous article ( https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1746 ), there may be a more correct vmnet fix than simply &#8216;commenting out the code&#8217;..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Replace dev-&gt;trans_start = jiffies with\u00a0\u00a0netif_trans_update(dev) in netif.c I have made this change, and VMware 12.1.1 is &#8211; so far &#8211; loading and running OK, as usual.. Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 May 30, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1748\"><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":[5,1238,11,14,15,25],"tags":[161,1366,903,761,1360],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-fix","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-vmware","tag-fix","tag-kernel-4-7-rc1","tag-netif-c","tag-vmnet","tag-vmware-12-1-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","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=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}