{"id":2740,"date":"2020-05-29T15:12:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2020-05-30T11:56:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T18:56:38","slug":"vmware-15-5-5-released-compiles-with-5-6-not-5-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2740","title":{"rendered":"VMware – 15.5.5 Released – Compiles with 5.6, not 5.7. – Patch Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"

VMware have just released Workstation Pro 15.5.5<\/strong>, and release notes are here:\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Workstation-Pro\/15.5\/rn\/VMware-Workstation-1555-Pro-Release-Notes.html<\/a>\u00a0 This release introduces enhancements for Windows 10 hosts, but also some unspecified ‘fixes’ for Linux..<\/p>\n

Update:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 Patch now available, at https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-15.5.5<\/a><\/em>
\nTested with 5.6.15 and 5.7-rc7, and compiles OK..
\nRG.\u00a0 May 30th, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

Compiles OK (with several warnings…) with Kernel 5.6 , but fails with 5.7-rc7 (GCC 10..)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

[rgadsdon@rgz220 vmnet-only]$ make<\/span><\/strong>
\nUsing kernel build system.<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake -C \/lib\/modules\/5.7.0-rc7\/build\/include\/.. M=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD\/. \\<\/span><\/strong>
\nMODULEBUILDDIR= modules<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: Entering directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-5.7-rc7'<\/span><\/strong>
\nCC [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/vmnet-only\/driver.o<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/vmnet-only\/driver.o: warning: objtool: .text.__x86_indirect_thunk_rax+0x0: unsupported intra-function call<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/vmnet-only\/driver.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[2]: *** [scripts\/Makefile.build:267: \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/vmnet-only\/driver.o] Error 255<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[2]: *** Deleting file '\/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/vmnet-only\/driver.o'<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: *** [Makefile:1729: \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/vmnet-only] Error 2<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-5.7-rc7'<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake: *** [Makefile:117: vmnet.ko] Error 2<\/span><\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

................................<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/vmmon-only\/linux\/driver.o: warning: objtool: .text.__x86_indirect_thunk_rax+0x0: unsupported intra-function call<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/vmmon-only\/linux\/driver.o: warning: objtool: If this is a retpoline, please patch it in with alternatives and annotate it with ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE.<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[2]: *** [scripts\/Makefile.build:267: \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/vmmon-only\/linux\/driver.o] Error 255<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[2]: *** Deleting file '\/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/vmmon-only\/linux\/driver.o'<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: *** [Makefile:1729: \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/vmmon-only] Error 2<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-5.7-rc7'<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake: *** [Makefile:117: vmmon.ko] Error 2<\/span><\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 May 29th, 2020,<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VMware have just released Workstation Pro 15.5.5, and release notes are here:\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Workstation-Pro\/15.5\/rn\/VMware-Workstation-1555-Pro-Release-Notes.html\u00a0 This release introduces enhancements for Windows 10 hosts, but also some unspecified ‘fixes’ for Linux.. Update:\u00a0\u00a0 Patch now available, at https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-15.5.5 Tested with 5.6.15 and 5.7-rc7, and compiles OK.. RG.\u00a0 May 30th, 2020 Compiles OK (with several warnings…) with Kernel 5.6 , but fails …<\/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":[14,15,19,25],"tags":[2227,2226,2214,2225],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-5-7-rc7","tag-fails-with-kernel-5-7","tag-ok-with-kernel-5-6","tag-vmware-15-5-5-released"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","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=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2742,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}