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Linux Kernel 3.10 and VMware Workstation 9

Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:11:04 +0000

A new Linux kernel version is released and guess what: VMware Workstation fucked up once again.
The fix posted on the Arch Linux wiki is applicable also to Fedora 19, I’ll post it here for future reference.

$ cd /tmp
$ curl -O http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/vmblock-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch
$ curl -O http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch
$ cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
# tar -xvf vmblock.tar
# tar -xvf vmnet.tar
# patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmblock-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch
# patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch
# tar -cf vmblock.tar vmblock-only
# tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
# rm -r vmblock-only
# rm -r vmnet-only
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

For more information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware#3.10_kernels

Linux Kernel 3.8.* – VMware failed to build vmci

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:59:47 +0000

Every time a new Kernel goes out there seems to be a new issue with VMware Workstation 9.
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:

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/

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’t possible to rebuild the VMCI module.
On the VMware official forum I found a thread (http://communities.vmware.com/message/2182440#2182440) in which a user provides a patch.
Apply the patch is fairly simple:

Fedora 18 and VMware Workstation 9

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:51:37 +0000

During the installation process of VMware Workstation 9 some modules need to be compiled but unfortunately Workstation 9.0.1 doesn’t seems to be able to find by itself the correct kernel headers directory.
If kernel headers aren’t already installed, open the terminal and type as root: yum install kernel-*.
Wait for the process to be completed and then: sudo cp /usr/src/kernels/kernel_version.fc18.x86_64/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /lib/modules/kernel_version.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/.
This should do the trick.