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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
