{"id":3260,"date":"2024-09-15T17:53:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T00:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2024-09-15T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T00:53:38","slug":"vmware-workstation-multiple-patch-forks-since-broadcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3260","title":{"rendered":"VMware Workstation &#8211; Multiple Patch Forks Since Broadcom.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to start by thanking <strong>Michal <\/strong><span class=\"p-name vcard-fullname d-block overflow-hidden\"><strong>Kube\u010dek<\/strong> for his many years of expert support of the VMware <strong>vmmon<\/strong>\/<strong>vmnet<\/strong> modules for later kernel versions..<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since the Broadcom takeover of VMware, his patches have been forked multiple times, for 17.5.2 and now 17.6 support, with varying degrees of success..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have tested most of these and &#8211; currently &#8211; the version I have found to be the most reliable is at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/64kramsystem\/vmware-host-modules-fork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/64kramsystem\/vmware-host-modules-fork<\/a> , and these compile cleanly with kernel 6.10.x and compile successfully &#8211; with a few warnings &#8211;\u00a0 on kernel 6.11..<\/p>\n<p>For completeness, the forks I have found so far are:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/64kramsystem\/vmware-host-modules-fork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/64kramsystem\/vmware-host-modules-fork<\/a><br \/>\n<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>\u00a0 (not yet updated for 17.6 support..)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bytium\/vm-host-modules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/bytium\/vm-host-modules<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/philipl\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-17.6.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/philipl\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-17.6.0<\/a> (only just reported &#8211; not yet tested..)<\/p>\n<p>The forum for all these can still be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/issues<\/a> and, as can be seen, is becoming somewhat convoluted&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I have been using VMware Workstation on Linux since the student\/developer beta version in 1999, and still find it to be the only <em>reliable<\/em> solution for running Windows in a VM&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 September 15th 2024.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to start by thanking Michal Kube\u010dek for his many years of expert support of the VMware vmmon\/vmnet modules for later kernel versions.. Since the Broadcom takeover of VMware, his patches have been forked multiple times, for 17.5.2 and now 17.6 support, with varying degrees of success..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have tested most of these and &#8211; <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3260\"><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":[5,11,15,19,20,25],"tags":[2681,95,2682,2680,298,2306,402],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-hacks","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-performance-2","category-vmware","tag-17-6","tag-available","tag-broadcom","tag-forks","tag-patches","tag-vmmon-vmnet","tag-vmware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","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=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}