https://nagg.eu/tags/kernel-3.8/Recent content in Kernel 3.8 on nagg.euHugoenSun, 03 Mar 2013 15:59:47 +0000https://nagg.eu/linux-kernel-3-8-vmware-failed-to-build-vmci/Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:59:47 +0000https://nagg.eu/linux-kernel-3-8-vmware-failed-to-build-vmci/<p>Every time a new Kernel goes out there seems to be a new issue with VMware Workstation 9.<br> Today I updated a couple of Fedora 18 boxes, applied the usual workaround (I wrote a post about it one month ago or so) which consists in ONE OF the following steps:</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code>ln -s /usr/src/kernels/_kernel_version_/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/kernels/_kernel_version_/include/linux/version.h ### OR cp /usr/src/kernels/_kernel_version_/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /lib/modules/_kernel_version_/build/include/linux/ </code></pre><p>Rebooted and then issued the usual command (vmware-modconfig –console –install-all) to rebuild the needed VMware modules just to find out that it isn&rsquo;t possible to rebuild the VMCI module.<br> On the VMware official forum I found a thread (<!-- raw HTML omitted --><a href="http://communities.vmware.com/message/2182440#2182440">http://communities.vmware.com/message/2182440#2182440</a><!-- raw HTML omitted -->) in which a user provides a patch.<br> Apply the patch is fairly simple:</p>