On Wed, 2024-06-26 at 15:56 -0400, Mark C. Allman via users wrote: > Anyone have VMware Workstation or Player 17.5.1 or 17.5.2 working on the > 6.9.* kernels? The kernel modules from VMware haven't worked in quite a > while. They don't compile for the 6.9.* kernels, and, if I'm remembering > correctly, they don't compile when running the 6.8.* kernels either. > > I have the code for vmnet and vmmon from > https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-17.5.1. > There are all kinds of exceptions when the kernel modules are loaded at > boot time. I tried running vmplayer as a test -- it "ran" but trashed > the kernel and required hard reboots. One of the tests totally bricked > my laptop (that was fun to recover). > > I'm currently running kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40.x86_64and all packages are > up to date. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 7591, Core i7-10510U CPU, 16GB > of ram. > > -- Mark > > This was my reply to Broadcom list - hope it helps
