Re: F40 kernel 6.9.* and VMware 17.5.* question

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On 6/26/24 2:56 PM, 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.
Not telling you how to compute, just curious: why not just use native KVM? I use KVM on my workstation to virtualize RHEL 7, RHEL8, RHEL9, Windows 2022, Windows 2019, Windows 10 and Windows 11. It Just Works(TM).

Since Broadcom has told us all to kick rocks, maybe consider using native Linux virtualization?

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Thomas
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