On 2024-01-12 11:28, Sbob wrote:
I am running Fedora 39 (Kernel 6.6.9-200) and VMWare workstation Pro 17.5.0
Here is what I do every time there is a new kernel:
1) run the dnf update and get the new kernel installed
2) reboot
3) open a terminal as root and run this script:
#!/bin/bash
VMWARE_VERSION=workstation-17.5.0
TMP_FOLDER=/tmp/patch-vmware
rm -fdr $TMP_FOLDER
mkdir -p $TMP_FOLDER
cd $TMP_FOLDER
git clone https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules.git
cd $TMP_FOLDER/vmware-host-modules
git checkout $VMWARE_VERSION
git fetch
make
sudo make install
sudo rm /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1/libz.so.1
sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1
/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1/libz.so.1
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware restart
There are always a couple of not found errors but the compile succeeds
4) I start VMWare as root by running this script:
#!/bin/bash
/etc/init.d/vmware restart
vmware&
At this point VMWare should start but it will not actually start a VM
throwing an error about vmmon if I remember correctly
5) Stop VMWare
6) reboot once again
7) log in again and as root start VMWare with the start script again (step
4) and presto, everything works as expected
Note: as you upgrade VMWare versions make sure you set the
"VMWARE_VERSION=workstation-17.5.0" in the patch script (step3) to match
your version
On 1/11/24 16:39, Barry wrote:
On 11 Jan 2024, at 02:43, Frank Bures <buresf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Yes this works well. I converted a windows 10 successfully.
Just remember that you also need to copy the Ethernet address from the
vmware xml config file into the qemu config. Easy to do with libvirt
manager.
Last few days I managed to upgrade the windows 10 image to windows 11.
A little tricky to convert from MBR to GPT then boot under UEFI and
secure boot, but doable.
IMHO, it's too many hoops to jump through. Give me QEMU any day :-)
Cheers
Frank
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