{"id":2002,"date":"2017-06-22T20:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T03:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2017-06-22T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T03:21:31","slug":"vmware-12-5-7-released-ok-with-kernel-4-12-still-needs-guigcc7-workarounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; 12.5.7 Released &#8211; OK with Kernel 4.12, Still Needs GUI\/GCC7 Workarounds.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VMware version <strong>12.5.7<\/strong> is out, and the release notes are here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.vmware.com\/Release_Notes\/en\/workstation\/12\/workstation-1257-release-notes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pubs.vmware.com\/Release_Notes\/en\/workstation\/12\/workstation-1257-release-notes.html<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As usual, not much actual detail, apart from &#8220;<em>&#8230;some bug fixes and security updates.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This version compiles OK with Kernel 4.12 (tested with <strong>4.12-rc6<\/strong>), but the runtime GUI and GCC7 workarounds mentioned in previous articles are still needed, for &#8216;newer&#8217; distros, such as Fedora 26&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 June 22, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware version 12.5.7 is out, and the release notes are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/pubs.vmware.com\/Release_Notes\/en\/workstation\/12\/workstation-1257-release-notes.html\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As usual, not much actual detail, apart from &#8220;&#8230;some bug fixes and security updates.&#8221; This version compiles OK with Kernel 4.12 (tested with 4.12-rc6), but the runtime GUI and GCC7 workarounds mentioned in previous articles are still needed, for &#8216;newer&#8217; distros, such as Fedora 26&#8230;. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2002\"><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":[10,14,15,25],"tags":[1635,1634,1633,1632],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-vmware","tag-gcc7-workaround","tag-gui-workaround","tag-ok-with-kernel-4-12","tag-vmware-12-5-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","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=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}