{"id":1932,"date":"2017-03-07T07:17:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T07:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2017-03-07T07:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T07:17:07","slug":"vmware-patch-for-kernel-4-11-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1932","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; Patch for Kernel 4.11 Support.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <strong>Virgo<\/strong>, there are now patches for <em>vmnet<\/em> and <em>vmmon<\/em> with Kernel 4.11 (see his comments under the earlier article).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">incremental<\/span> patches, for application to VMware 12.5.2 code already patched for Kernel 4.9\/4.10 support..<\/p>\n<p>Links are here:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pastebin.com\/McqmUf0u\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pastebin.com\/McqmUf0u<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pastebin.com\/yjbDHiSX\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pastebin.com\/yjbDHiSX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have modified these (adding appropriate <strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE&#8230;&#8230; #endif<\/span><\/strong> statements) to be backward-compatible with 4.10 and earlier, and applied them to 4.9\/4.10-patched VMware 12.5.2, and can confirm that it now compiles and runs on 4.11-rc1..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 March 6, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Virgo, there are now patches for vmnet and vmmon with Kernel 4.11 (see his comments under the earlier article).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These are incremental patches, for application to VMware 12.5.2 code already patched for Kernel 4.9\/4.10 support.. Links are here:\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/pastebin.com\/McqmUf0u\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/pastebin.com\/yjbDHiSX I have modified these (adding appropriate #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE&#8230;&#8230; #endif statements) to be backward-compatible with <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1932\"><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":[5,6,1238,11,14,15,1533,20,25],"tags":[203,1552,1206,761,1476],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-fix","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-patches","category-performance-2","category-vmware","tag-incremental-patches","tag-kernel-4-11-rc1","tag-vmmon","tag-vmnet","tag-vmware-12-5-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","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=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}