Re: After Upgrade from F25 to F26 VMware Workstation is refusing anything ...

"Walter H." <Walter.H@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:33:28 +0200

On 12.07.2017 21:27, Mark C. Allman wrote:
On 07/12/2017 12:14 PM, Walter H. wrote:
Hello,

I did this as explained here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade

and after this I can't start VMware Workstation;
removing and installing VMware Workstation (latest release: 12.5.7)
new doesn't help ...
(the same as if I hadn't removed and installed new)

ifconfig   only shows this:

enp63s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>   mtu 1500
         inet 192.168.1.1  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
         inet6 fe80::673e:4262:54d2:1816  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
         inet6 #myprefix#::1:1  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
         ether 24:00:00:00:00:24  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
         RX packets 18656  bytes 1210711 (1.1 MiB)
         RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
         TX packets 25349  bytes 35314278 (33.6 MiB)
         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
         device interrupt 17

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>   mtu 65536
         inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
         inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
         loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
         RX packets 32  bytes 2848 (2.7 KiB)
         RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
         TX packets 32  bytes 2848 (2.7 KiB)
         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

and before the upgrade there were two extra virtual interfaces from
VMware ...
one used when VMs run with Host-only network connection, and
one used when VMs run with NAT network connection ...
(the same as I'm used to with Windows release)

Greetings,
Walter

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First, sorry if this doesn't show up as plain text.  It should but
typing it in Thunderbird isn't showing it as plain text.

Use "systemctl status vmware" to determine if the vmware services are
all running.  If it's my experience then I bet not.  When I run
     sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

I get the error message "Failed to get gcc information."  I had to do
this (as root):
       cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
       tar xf vmmon.tar
       cd vmmon-only
       make
       cd ..
       tar xf vmnet.tar
       cd vmnet-only
       make
       cd ../
       mkdir /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
       cp vmmon.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
       cp vmnet.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
       depmod -a
       systemctl vmware restart
so far this works and brings back the two virtual network interfaces ...
with the only difference I had to do this:

cp vmmon.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/vmmon.ko
cp vmnet.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/vmnet.ko

vmnet1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.151.1  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 
192.168.151.255
        inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 41  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

vmnet8: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.21.1  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.21.255
        inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 40  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

but

vmware (as in VMware-Workstation) still wouldn't start.  Using strace I
found that libexpat.so.0 wasn't being found so I then ran:
     ln -s /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.1.6.2 /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.0
this doesn't help anything, VMware Wkst. still refuses to start ...
(even after a shutdown -r now)

is there any log or similar where I can look for the reason if this?
vmware would then run and my Windows 10 VM appears to be working fine
(so far ;-).

i googled around for the first part about the need to manually rebuild
vmmon and vmnet.

Thanks,
Walter

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