On 2024-01-10 21:03, Sherman Grunewagen via users wrote:
On 10/01/2024 16.06, 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?
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I haven't.
I've been living in a certain closed country for the past several
years and sadly haven't been able to update either my Fedora system
or my Linux "praxis". I'm very rusty.
Having returned to America, I did a fresh install of Fedora 38 from
Fedora 30 (don't laugh :-)) on which VMware 15 worked flawlessly.
Tweaking the system to get things the way I ran F30 has taken all my
meagre brain cycles. :-) Lots has changed since F30!
Now I'm trying to get the newest VMware to work. Changing to qemu/kvm
(I barely know what they are) seems daunting, especially as I need for
the Windows 7 guest to run as it did under VMware. I no longer have
the installation disks for Windows or Office 2013 (both "pro"
editions), nor the mathematics macros I installed in PowerPoint. So
re-installation isn't possible. Staying with VMware seems the right
road for now.
-- Sherman
You would not have to reinstall. Once you convert your VMWare disks to
QEMU disk and configure the QEMU virtual machine, it just boots the same
way as it used to in VMWare. That's the beauty of it.
Cheers
Frank
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