{"id":2939,"date":"2021-08-02T22:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2021-08-02T22:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:21:52","slug":"kernel-5-14-rc4-vmware-16-1-2-fix-already-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2939","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; 5.14-rc4 &#8211; VMware 16.1.2 Fix Already Available.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel <strong>5.14-rc4<\/strong> is out, and brief details are here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2108.0\/00269.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2108.0\/00269.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most recent &#8211; patched &#8211; NVIDIA driver 470.57.02 is OK, but if you have an <em>earlier<\/em> version of the VMware 16.1.2 patchset, you may encounter an error when booting a Windows guest: &#8220;<em>The operation on file &#8220;\/home\/rgadsdon\/vmware\/Windows_XP_Pro-SP3-2\/Windows_XP_Pro-000001-cl3-s002.vmdk&#8221; failed.<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0 &#8230; etc &#8230; &#8211; followed by boot failure..<\/p>\n<p>This has already been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fixed<\/span> in the most recent version of the 16.1.2 patchset, at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-16.1.2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-16.1.2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 August 2nd, 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 5.14-rc4 is out, and brief details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2108.0\/00269.html The most recent &#8211; patched &#8211; NVIDIA driver 470.57.02 is OK, but if you have an earlier version of the VMware 16.1.2 patchset, you may encounter an error when booting a Windows guest: &#8220;The operation on file &#8220;\/home\/rgadsdon\/vmware\/Windows_XP_Pro-SP3-2\/Windows_XP_Pro-000001-cl3-s002.vmdk&#8221; failed.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8230; etc &#8230; &#8211; followed by boot failure.. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2939\"><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":[1238,14,15,19,1533,25],"tags":[2411,2407,2410,2408,2409],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fix","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-patches","category-vmware","tag-fixed-in-latest-patchset","tag-kernel-5-14-rc4","tag-operation-failed","tag-vmware-16-1-2","tag-vmware-guest-boot-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","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=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}