{"id":2108,"date":"2017-11-17T02:43:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T10:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2017-11-17T02:43:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T10:43:22","slug":"vmware-12-5-8-released-still-incompatible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2108","title":{"rendered":"VMware – 12.5.8 Released – Still Incompatible.."},"content":{"rendered":"

There has been a new release of Workstation 12.5 – 12.5.8<\/strong> – and the – rather vague – release notes are here:\u00a0 https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Workstation-Pro\/12.0\/rn\/workstation-1258-release-notes.html<\/a><\/p>\n

I tested this with a ‘clean’ install on my cash-and-burn system, and basically, it suffers from the same compatibility problems as 12.5.7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 GCC7, Fedora 26\/27, and Kernel 14.x all cause it to fail.<\/p>\n

# vmware <\/span><\/strong>---> returns to cursor.<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n............<\/span><\/strong>\r\n# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all<\/span><\/strong>\r\nFailed to get gcc information.<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
Compiling vmmon (manually) with Kernel 14.0.0:<\/p>\n
.........<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmmon-only\/linux\/hostif.c: In function \u2018HostIF_EstimateLockedPageLimit\u2019:<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmmon-only\/linux\/hostif.c:1597:31: error: implicit declaration of function \u2018global_page_state\u2019; did you mean \u2018global_numa_state\u2019? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]<\/span><\/strong>\r\n unsigned int lockedPages = global_page_state(NR_PAGETABLE) +<\/span><\/strong>\r\n ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/span><\/strong>\r\n global_numa_state<\/span><\/strong>\r\ncc1: some warnings being treated as errors<\/span><\/strong>\r\nmake[2]: *** [scripts\/Makefile.build:315: \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmmon-only\/linux\/hostif.o] Error 1<\/span><\/strong>\r\nmake[1]: *** [Makefile:1503: _module_\/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmmon-only] Error 2<\/span><\/strong>\r\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.14'<\/span><\/strong>\r\nmake: *** [Makefile:120: vmmon.ko] Error 2<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
As I have already migrated to Workstation 14.0.0, I did not do any further testing..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I would speculate that the convoluted workarounds and patches used for 12.5.7 may still work with 12.5.8…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hopefully there will be a 14.0.1 soon?<\/p>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 November 17, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There has been a new release of Workstation 12.5 – 12.5.8 – and the – rather vague – release notes are here:\u00a0 https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Workstation-Pro\/12.0\/rn\/workstation-1258-release-notes.html I tested this with a ‘clean’ install on my cash-and-burn system, and basically, it suffers from the same compatibility problems as 12.5.7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 GCC7, Fedora 26\/27, and Kernel 14.x all cause it to fail. # …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[5,6,10,1617,11,14,15,19,25],"tags":[1745,1748,1747,1218,1749,1746,402],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-fedora","category-gcc","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-12-5-8-released","tag-fedora-26-27","tag-gcc7","tag-incompatible","tag-kernel-14-0-0","tag-same-problems-as-12-5-7","tag-vmware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","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=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}