{"id":1996,"date":"2017-06-09T01:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T08:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2017-06-09T01:38:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T08:38:55","slug":"vmware-clues-for-vmmon-kernel-4-12-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; Clues for vmmon Kernel 4.12 fix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the thread on the VMware forum ( <a href=\"https:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/thread\/565157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/thread\/565157<\/a> ) there is a link to a potential patch for Kernel 4.12 support, but you are advised to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> try to execute this, as &#8211; although it compiles OK &#8211; it will cause the host system to reboot without warning as soon as a client is started..\u00a0\u00a0 I have &#8216;tested&#8217; this, and confirm that the host immediately reboots, without any console output!<\/p>\n<p>I did mention in the earlier article that VirtualBox suffered from a similar problem, and it appears that they now have a solution ( <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/ticket\/16725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/ticket\/16725<\/a> ).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To see the changes that have been made, compare the old and new versions of <strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">memobj-r0drv-linux.c<\/span> <\/strong>in the source tree..<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully a fix will be available for VMware, soon..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 June 9, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the thread on the VMware forum ( https:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/thread\/565157 ) there is a link to a potential patch for Kernel 4.12 support, but you are advised to not try to execute this, as &#8211; although it compiles OK &#8211; it will cause the host system to reboot without warning as soon as a client is started..\u00a0\u00a0 I <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1996\"><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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","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=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}