{"id":2774,"date":"2020-07-19T17:26:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T00:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2020-07-19T17:26:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T00:26:33","slug":"vmware-kernel-5-8-is-a-serious-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2774","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; Kernel 5.8 is a Serious Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the release of Kernel 5.8-rc1, any attempt I made to run a VMware client on that host system has failed catastrophically. ( see <a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2753<\/a> ) and the problem still persists, with <strong>5.8-rc6<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I had posted brief details of the issue on the VMware forum some weeks ago, but there has been no useful response. <a href=\"https:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/thread\/638457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/thread\/638457<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have recently looked at the issue with other VM technologies, and found some rather alarming comments on the VirtualBox defect tracking site: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/ticket\/19644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/ticket\/19644<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not encouraging, when their only solution seems to be to actually patch the Linux Kernel&#8230; One of the comments states&#8221;&#8230;<em>From what I see, the kernel developers have effectively blocked all access to allocation of executable memory other than through the KVM mechanism.<\/em> &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; It appears that the current situation, is that both VMware and VirtualBox hosts are incompatible with Kernel 5.8&#8230;.?<\/p>\n<p>I am now reading up on KVM etc, just in case&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 July 19th 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the release of Kernel 5.8-rc1, any attempt I made to run a VMware client on that host system has failed catastrophically. ( see https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2753 ) and the problem still persists, with 5.8-rc6. I had posted brief details of the issue on the VMware forum some weeks ago, but there has been no useful response. https:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/thread\/638457 I <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2774\"><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":[6,14,15,19,1611,25],"tags":[1218,2262,2263,305,399,402],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crash-and-burn","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-virtualbox","category-vmware","tag-incompatible","tag-kernel-5-8","tag-no-solution-yet","tag-problem","tag-virtualbox","tag-vmware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","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=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2775,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}