{"id":2753,"date":"2020-06-14T18:54:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T01:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2020-06-14T18:54:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T01:54:21","slug":"kernel-5-8-rc1-released-problem-with-vmware-runtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2753","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; 5.8-rc1 Released &#8211; Problem with VMware Runtime.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 5.8-rc1 has been released, and details are here:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2006.1\/07293.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2006.1\/07293.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NVIDIA 440.82 with the 5.7 and 5.8 patches seems to be OK, but I have encountered a serious problem with VMware, and have now confirmed the same fault on two different systems (both Fedora 32 x86_64)<\/p>\n<p>The VMware 15.5.6 vmmon\/vmnet modules compile\/run OK with the kernel 5.7 patch, but there is a more serious issue with the runtime in this kernel release..<\/p>\n<p>The runtime <strong>vmware-modconfig<\/strong> segfaults as mentioned in a previous article (<a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2750<\/a>), and after using the &#8216;workaround&#8217; mentioned, the VMware main window is displayed, but I discovered that any attempt to start a VM resulted in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">immediate<\/span> system reboot, just after &#8216;<em>waiting for connection<\/em>&#8216;, with no apparent errors or warnings shown.<\/p>\n<p>More investigation to be done&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 June 14th 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 5.8-rc1 has been released, and details are here:\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2006.1\/07293.html NVIDIA 440.82 with the 5.7 and 5.8 patches seems to be OK, but I have encountered a serious problem with VMware, and have now confirmed the same fault on two different systems (both Fedora 32 x86_64) The VMware 15.5.6 vmmon\/vmnet modules compile\/run OK with the kernel 5.7 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2753\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[6,10,14,15,18,19,25],"tags":[2239,1858,2241,2240],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crash-and-burn","category-fedora","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-kernel-5-8-rc1-released","tag-patched-nvidia-ok","tag-reboot-when-loading-vm","tag-vmware-runtime-segfault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","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=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}