{"id":1988,"date":"2017-05-26T01:34:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T08:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2017-05-26T01:34:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T08:34:20","slug":"vmware-12-5-6-breaks-fedora-26-gcc-7-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; 12.5.6 Breaks Fedora 26 \/ GCC 7 Workaround.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been testing VMware 12.5.6 &#8211; unsuccessfully &#8211; with Kernel 4.12-rc2, but on reverting to Kernel <strong>4.11.3<\/strong>, I found that the <strong><em>vmware<\/em><\/strong> runtime workaround for Fedora 26 \/ GCC 7 ( see <a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1939<\/a> ) no longer worked, and produced the same result as before the modifications &#8211; no execution, and a return to the command prompt..<\/p>\n<p>After further testing, I found that the only solution was to revert to VMware <strong>12.5.5<\/strong> &#8211; with the 4.11 vmmon\/vmnet patches.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The workaround was successful, again..<\/p>\n<p>Fedora 26 is due to be released in about six weeks time (but may slip..) and hopefully this workaround will be unnecessary, by then..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 May 26, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been testing VMware 12.5.6 &#8211; unsuccessfully &#8211; with Kernel 4.12-rc2, but on reverting to Kernel 4.11.3, I found that the vmware runtime workaround for Fedora 26 \/ GCC 7 ( see https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1939 ) no longer worked, and produced the same result as before the modifications &#8211; no execution, and a return to the command prompt.. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1988\"><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":[10,1617,11,14,15,19,1533,25],"tags":[1561,1562,1621,1620,1618,1619],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-gcc","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-patches","category-vmware","tag-fedora-26","tag-gcc-7","tag-needs-4-11-patches","tag-revert-to-12-5-5","tag-vmware-12-5-6","tag-vmware-runtime-workaround-fails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","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=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}