On Wed, 2024-01-10 at 21:40 -0500, Frank Bures wrote: > On 2024-01-10 19:06, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 1/10/24 15:36, Sherman Grunewagen via users wrote: > > > Does anyone have VMware Workstation Pro 17.5.0 running with any of the > > > later 6.6.X kernels? > > > > > > I'm having a hard time getting it to run with a Fedora 38 > > > installation. I'm fully updated as of 2 days ago, including the 6.6.9 > > > kernel. When I try to start Workstation directly after VMware > > > installation I get a popup saying that the kernel-headers package for > > > kernel-6.6.9 is missing and so it can't build some modules. the problem > > > is that > > > the kernel-headers package for 6.6.9 is missing from Updates. The latest > > > package is > > > for 6.6.3. > > > > That sounds like a broken build system. The kernel-headers package doesn't > > get updated for every kernel if they haven't changed. > > > > Have you tried using qemu/kvm instead? > > I have had a bad experience with F39 and VMWare Player. I've made it work > initially using above mentioned modules, but it was highly unstable. The > machine would randomly stop crucial services, announce CPU core errors and > eventually the only way out would be a hard reset, just to have to whole > thing repeated in a day or two. > > I converted my VMWare disks into QEMU disk and I've been running QEMU every > since. Rock solid, no problems with kernel modules and frequent kernel > updates. > > I'd highly recommend to go this way. The choice is yours, of course. > > Cheers > Frank
I had host crashes with some kernels and just stayed with an older kernel. The latest kernels are now working fine with WS 17.5.0 It was really a kernel problem not a VMware problem. See https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/master ja@meon ~ 1$ uname -a Linux meon.jaa.org.uk 6.6.9-200.fc39.x86_64 From my notes 2023_12_26-12.38 Must run mkubecek vmmon & vmnet scripts after every kernel update DO NOT rely on vmware script even if it returns no errors! Must download the matching mkubecek code after every new WorkStation release. From INSTALL file: As ja Just Once for WS17.5.0 say cd /global/db/sw/VMware_17/mkubeck_17.5.0 wget https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/archive/workstation-17.5.0.tar.gz tar -xzf workstation-17.5.0.tar.gz For Every New kernel cd /global/db/sw/VMware_17/mkubeck_17.5.0/vmware-host-modules-workstation-17.5.0 make clean make su make install systemctl restart vmware.service John -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
