{"id":1783,"date":"2016-07-24T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2016-07-24T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T22:12:08","slug":"kernel-4-7-released-ok-with-patched-vmware-and-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"KERNEL &#8211; 4.7 Released &#8211; OK with Patched VMware and NVIDIA.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel <strong>4.7<\/strong> has been released &#8211; slightly later than usual &#8211; and brief details are here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1607.3\/00150.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1607.3\/00150.html<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">$ uname -a<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">Linux rglinux-i7 4.7.0 #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 14:34:37 PDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>Neither VMware nor NVIDIA have drivers that work with this kernel version, but the 4.7-rc patched versions of VMware <strong>12.1.1<\/strong> and NVIDIA <strong>367.35<\/strong> both work OK with 4.7-Final..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For details on these patches, see earlier articles on 4.7-rc1..\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1746\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1746<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1750\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1750<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had already created a <strong>patched<\/strong> version of the NVIDIA installer (see previous article), and applied it to 4.7:<\/p>\n<pre><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">.\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35-custom.run -s --install-libglvnd --glvnd-glx-client<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 July 24, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 4.7 has been released &#8211; slightly later than usual &#8211; and brief details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1607.3\/00150.html $ uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 4.7.0 #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 14:34:37 PDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux Neither VMware nor NVIDIA have drivers that work with this kernel version, but the 4.7-rc patched versions of VMware 12.1.1 and NVIDIA <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1783\"><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":[11,14,15,18,19,20,25],"tags":[161,1407,1408,283,507,1409],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-performance-2","category-vmware","tag-fix","tag-kernel-4-7","tag-nvidia-367-35-patched","tag-ok","tag-released","tag-vmware-12-1-1-patched"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","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=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}