On 05/02/14 05:57, John Austin wrote:
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 05:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
wrote:
On 04/02/14 20:42, Rick Stevens wrote:
For VMware Workstation 10 there's no patch needed. Or at least I
haven't needed one. I'm running Windows 7 in a VM with no issues.
I run Win7 and Win8 using libvirt straight out of the box on 64-bit F19
with no issues. Granted, I don't do anything fancy with Windows (I only
use it when the bosses hold a gun to my head and even then I protest a
lot).
I haven't moved up to F20 yet. It scares me a bit.
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- Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -
Well maybe VMware 10 is different? It was installed from
VMware-Workstation-Full-9.0.2-1031769.x86_64.txt, bought from an on-line
vendor that appeared to be legit. Harry Reindl seemed to know where to
find the patch, never indicated it was unusual to have to do?
When I start VMware, from the XFCE menu, now I get only an error message
block that says: "Before you can run VMware several modules must be
compiled and installed in the running kernel, Cancel/Install" I can
click on Install and nothing happens after that, just a bare desktop
display, no activity on-line in my router real time display so it's not
trying to download anything from them?
From the command line:
[bobg@box10 ~]$ vmware
Logging to /tmp/vmware-bobg/vmware-modconfig-4445.log
and then the same error message block pops up.
I used it to run F-20 beta and this released version for a while from
F-19 before doing this F-20 install and each updated kernel required a
patch, e.g. 3.10 to 3.11 to 3.12 etc.
Does that indicate a problem with my VMware install, am I unique? I
bought it not expecting those problems and I believe they offer an
upgrade for additional money which I would hesitate to buy knowing what
I know now ... I would appreciate hearing that I've done something
wrong, contact with their sales operation before I bought it was not
productive. Still waiting for a call back many months later ...
Thanks,
Bob
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Box10 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE
Hi
I made some notes to myself last Dec - They may be useful
I am running fully updated F20 with VM Workstation 9.0.2 with
Windows 7 with no problems.
I use USB programmers a lot from the virtual machine and several years
ago had to use VMware for them to work. Maybe the alternatives are
better now.
John
2013_12_27
Compiling patched modules for WS-9.0.2 and kernel 3.12 (F20)
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The main source of info is here - also source of vmblock-3.12-patch
http://dominator008.com/constructionyard/2013/10/03/vmware-9-0-2-vmblock-patch-for-linux-kernel-3-12/
Other sites
http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/
https://sites.google.com/site/mysticalzerotmp
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Remove any lurking versions of vmware workstation
vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation
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Install version 9.0.2
/global/db/sw/VMware_9.0/VMware-Workstation-Full-9.0.2-1031769.x86_64.txt
(Python errors given - ignore) It still seems to complete successfully !
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Down load the patches
cd /global/db/sw/F20/VMware_Patches
wget
http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.12-3.11-3.10.patch
wget https://sites.google.com/site/mysticalzerotmp/vmblock.3.10.patch
wget https://sites.google.com/site/mysticalzerotmp/vmblock.3.11.patch
wget http://dominator008.com/crate/vmblock-3.12-patch
Note the hyphons in vmblock-3.12-patch !
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Apply the patches
cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar -xvf vmblock.tar
cd vmblock-only
patch -p1 -i /global/db/sw/F20/VMware_Patches/vmblock.3.10.patch
patch -p1 -i /global/db/sw/F20/VMware_Patches/vmblock.3.11.patch
patch -p1 -i /global/db/sw/F20/VMware_Patches/vmblock-3.12-patch
cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar -cf vmblock.tar vmblock-only
rm -rf vmblock-only
tar -xvf vmnet.tar
cd vmnet-only
patch -p1
-i /global/db/sw/F20/VMware_Patches/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.12-3.11-3.10.patch
cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
rm -rf vmnet-only
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Build the modules from the CL
vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
or via gui
vmware
Well I thank you for the information but I can't believe any rational
Fedora Linux user would want to go through this to use VMware! Since
this is a new installation on a new Linux release it appears I would
have to run the patches for the earlier kernels first? At this point I
don't even want to run it running kernel:
[bobg@box10 ~]$ uname -a
Linux box10 3.12.9-301.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 29 15:56:22 UTC 2014
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
If it was readily available I would run the patch for 3.12, but I
haven't had much success finding it and even then when the next kernel
comes along I'm back searching for a patch again. It's not worth it to
me as long as virtualbox works. I just made a bad purchase, it's another
company I will avoid.
The application appears to be intended primarily for Windows users who
need to run Linux, etc. Linux users are not supported. Am I wrong?
Again I thank you for responding,
Bob
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Box10 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE
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