As there is almost always a need to apply the most recent patchset to releases of VMware vmmon\/vmnet to support the latest kernels, it might be useful to document a process for making this (relatively..) easy:<\/p>\n
VMMON and VMNET are picked up during the vmware-modconfig…<\/span><\/strong> command, from \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source<\/strong><\/span>, and this process expects to find vmmon.tar<\/span><\/strong> and vmnet.tar<\/strong><\/span> there..<\/p>\n So.. go to the the site for the latest patchset (currently https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/tmp\/workstation-17.0.2-k6.5<\/a>) and select ‘Code<\/em><\/strong>‘ \/ ‘Download ZIP<\/em><\/strong>‘. After that, each time you run # vmware-modconfig –console –install-all<\/span><\/strong> after updating the kernel, this will automatically compile\/install the patched versions..<\/p>\n As usual, there are many ways of doing this, but this is one I have used for some time now..<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon. September 2nd 2023.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As there is almost always a need to apply the most recent patchset to releases of VMware vmmon\/vmnet to support the latest kernels, it might be useful to document a process for making this (relatively..) easy: VMMON and VMNET are picked up during the vmware-modconfig… command, from \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source, and this process expects to find vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[14,15,19,1533,25],"tags":[2608,191,297,402],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-patches","category-vmware","tag-easy-install","tag-howto","tag-patched","tag-vmware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","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=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThen unzip this, which gives you a folder containing the sub-folders vmmon-only<\/strong><\/span> and vmware-only<\/strong><\/span>.
\ncd<\/strong><\/span> to this, and create basic TAR files from these sub-folders:
\n# tar -cvf vmmon.tar vmmon-only<\/span><\/strong>
\n# tar -cvf vmnet.tar vmnet-only<\/span><\/strong><\/code>
\nIf you need to, save the ‘old’ tar files (as root..):
\n# mv \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmmon.tar \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmmon.tar.orig<\/strong><\/span>
\n# mv \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmnet.tar \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmnet.tar.orig<\/strong><\/span><\/code>
\nCopy the new\/patched versions:
\n# cp *.tar \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/<\/strong><\/span><\/code><\/p>\n