{"id":2819,"date":"2020-09-05T23:20:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T06:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2020-09-05T23:20:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T06:20:16","slug":"vmware-fix-for-kernel-5-8-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2819","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; Fix for Kernel 5.8 Available.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With thanks to <em><strong>huyz<\/strong><\/em> for the notification &#8211; there is now a patch from <em><strong>baryonix<\/strong><\/em> available for VMware 15.5.6 and Kernel 5.8..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The patch is available here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/baryonix\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/fixes-for-5.8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/github.com\/baryonix\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/fixes-for-5.8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have &#8211; briefly &#8211; tested this with Kernel 5.8.5, and it was successful..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As the usual <strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"># vmware<\/span><\/strong> and <span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong># vmware-modconfig<\/strong><\/span> still segfault, then <strong>vmmon\/vmnet<\/strong> have to be installed from the patch fileset, after compilation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VMware can be started by <span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong># \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/bin\/vmware<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have also tested it with Kernel 5.9-rc3 and &#8211; so far &#8211; it seems to work OK..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 September 5th 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With thanks to huyz for the notification &#8211; there is now a patch from baryonix available for VMware 15.5.6 and Kernel 5.8..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The patch is available here:\u00a0 https:\/\/github.com\/baryonix\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/fixes-for-5.8 I have &#8211; briefly &#8211; tested this with Kernel 5.8.5, and it was successful..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As the usual # vmware and # vmware-modconfig still segfault, then vmmon\/vmnet have to be <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2819\"><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":[1238,14,15,19,1533,350,25],"tags":[161,2305,2306,402],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fix","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-patches","category-success","category-vmware","tag-fix","tag-patch-for-kernel-5-8","tag-vmmon-vmnet","tag-vmware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","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=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}