{"id":2611,"date":"2019-09-20T00:29:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2611"},"modified":"2019-09-20T00:29:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:29:20","slug":"vmware-version-15-5-is-out-compiles-with-kernel-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2611","title":{"rendered":"VMware – Version 15.5 is Out – Compiles with Kernel 5.3.."},"content":{"rendered":"

VMware have released Workstation version 15.5.0<\/strong>, and the release notes can be found here:\u00a0 https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Workstation-Pro\/15.5\/rn\/VMware-Workstation-155-Pro-Release-Notes.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The real surprise is that this actually compiles ( although not<\/span> very cleanly) with Kernel 5.3 (tested with 5.3.0<\/strong>, and GCC 9.2.1, on Fedora 30)..<\/p>\n

......................<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rtOtwQ\/vmnet-only\/vnetEvent.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rtOtwQ\/vmnet-only\/procfs.o: warning: objtool: .text.__x86_indirect_thunk_r10+0x0: unsupported intra-function call<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rtOtwQ\/vmnet-only\/procfs.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.<\/span><\/strong>
\n.........................<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rtOtwQ\/vmnet-only\/bridge.o: warning: objtool: .text.__x86_indirect_thunk_rcx+0x0: unsupported intra-function call<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rtOtwQ\/vmnet-only\/bridge.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rtOtwQ\/vmnet-only\/vnetUserListener.o: warning: objtool: .text.__x86_indirect_thunk_rax+0x0: unsupported intra-function call<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/tmp\/modconfig-rtOtwQ\/vmnet-only\/vnetUserListener.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.<\/span><\/strong>
\n........................<\/span><\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n

The installer is non-graphical:
\n# .\/VMware-Workstation-Full-15.5.0-14665864.x86_64.bundle<\/span><\/strong>
\nExtracting VMware Installer...done.<\/span><\/strong>
\nInstalling VMware Workstation 15.5.0<\/span><\/strong>
\nConfiguring...<\/span><\/strong>
\n[######################################################################] 100%<\/span><\/strong>
\nInstallation was successful.<\/span><\/strong><\/code>
\n– but the first run prompts for the EULA acceptance etc. in a window..<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 September 20th 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VMware have released Workstation version 15.5.0, and the release notes can be found here:\u00a0 https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Workstation-Pro\/15.5\/rn\/VMware-Workstation-155-Pro-Release-Notes.html The real surprise is that this actually compiles ( although not very cleanly) with Kernel 5.3 (tested with 5.3.0, and GCC 9.2.1, on Fedora 30).. …………………. \/tmp\/modconfig-rtOtwQ\/vmnet-only\/vnetEvent.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,15,19,1813,25],"tags":[2102,507,2101],"class_list":["post-2611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-retpoline","category-vmware","tag-compiles-with-kernel-5-3-0","tag-released","tag-vmware-15-5-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}