{"id":3255,"date":"2024-09-04T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2024-09-04T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T19:55:08","slug":"vmware-17-6-released-and-version-fix-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3255","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; 17.6 released, and Version Fix Patch.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VMware Workstation Pro version <strong>17.6<\/strong> has been released, and release notes are here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Workstation-Pro\/17.6\/rn\/vmware-workstation-176-pro-release-notes\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Workstation-Pro\/17.6\/rn\/vmware-workstation-176-pro-release-notes\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;fixes&#8217; mentioned are a bit late, as they include Fedora 40 support, and Kernel 6.8 support..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The &#8216;latest&#8217; 6.9+ patchset is required to support more recent kernels, from <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nan0desu\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/tmp\/workstation-17.5.2-k6.9-sharishth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/nan0desu\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/tmp\/workstation-17.5.2-k6.9-sharishth<\/a> but these will throw a vmmon version-mismatch error at runtime..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The simple fix for this is available in this thread, and thanks to <strong>Chaz6<\/strong> for the patch: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/issues\/278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/issues\/278<\/a> .\u00a0 I have applied these, and VMware 17.6 now works OK with kernels 6.10 and 6.11-rc. (tested with 6.10.7 and 6.11-rc6)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 September 4th 2024.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware Workstation Pro version 17.6 has been released, and release notes are here:\u00a0 https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Workstation-Pro\/17.6\/rn\/vmware-workstation-176-pro-release-notes\/index.html The &#8216;fixes&#8217; mentioned are a bit late, as they include Fedora 40 support, and Kernel 6.8 support..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The &#8216;latest&#8217; 6.9+ patchset is required to support more recent kernels, from https:\/\/github.com\/nan0desu\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/tmp\/workstation-17.5.2-k6.9-sharishth but these will throw a vmmon version-mismatch error at runtime..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The simple fix <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3255\"><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":[5,14,19,25],"tags":[2675,521,2676,2674],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-kernel","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-needs-6-9-patchset","tag-patch-available","tag-vmmon-version-error","tag-vmware-17-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","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=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}