{"id":2758,"date":"2020-06-22T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T07:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2020-06-22T00:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T07:01:22","slug":"kernel-5-8-rc2-still-catastrophic-failure-with-vmware-runtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; 5.8-rc2 &#8211; Still Catastrophic Failure with VMware Runtime."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel <strong>5.8-rc2<\/strong> has been released, and brief details are here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2006.2\/08747.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2006.2\/08747.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is no change to the problem with VMware runtime, and <strong>vmware-modconfig<\/strong> still segfaults, and the system still reboots immediately, when a VM open is attempted.<\/p>\n<p>To check that this was not due to a kernel misconfiguration, I installed the Fedora (Rawhide) version of Kernel 5.8-rc1 &#8211; <strong>5.8.0-0.rc1.20200617git69119673bd50.1.fc33.x86_64<\/strong>.\u00a0 This produced the same failure as with my compiled version from kernel.org.<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 June 21st 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 5.8-rc2 has been released, and brief details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2006.2\/08747.html There is no change to the problem with VMware runtime, and vmware-modconfig still segfaults, and the system still reboots immediately, when a VM open is attempted. To check that this was not due to a kernel misconfiguration, I installed the Fedora (Rawhide) version of Kernel 5.8-rc1 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2758\"><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":[6,10,14,15,19,25],"tags":[2242,2245,2243,2244],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crash-and-burn","category-fedora","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-kernel-5-8-rc2-released","tag-problems-occurs-with-fedora-33-5-8-rc1-kernel","tag-vmware-runtime-reboot-still-occurs","tag-vmware-modconfig-segfault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","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=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}