Fedora Kernel 6.1.15-200.fc37.x86_64 workstation 16.2.5 not working

[Cesarsk]

Hello. After update to kernel 6.1.15-200 the installation of the modules is not working properly anymore.

What I get is

could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module 'vmmon' is loaded. Failed to initialize monitor device

This happens when I try to start my VM.

The steps to install are

make sudo make install

[mkubecek]

If you did only that, you did not reload the newly built module. Also, did you check that the module is actually loaded as the error message tells you?

[Cesarsk]

@mkubecek any idea on how to reload the newly built module ?

[mkubecek]

The easiest way is to run /etc/init.d/vmware restart (as suggested in the INSTALL file).

[Cesarsk]

I have tried that, still not working, sadly. @mkubecek

systemctl daemon-reload

systemctl restart vmware
Job for vmware.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status vmware.service" and "journalctl -xeu vmware.service" for details.

systemctl status vmware
× vmware.service - SYSV: This service starts and stops VMware services
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware; generated)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2023-03-12 12:27:56 CET; 2s ago
       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Process: 38059 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 18791)
     Memory: 7.0M
        CPU: 46ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/vmware.service
             └─1513 /usr/sbin/vmware-authdlauncher

Mar 12 12:27:56 fedora vmware[38059]:    Virtual machine communication interface[  OK  ]
Mar 12 12:27:56 fedora vmware[38059]:    VM communication interface socket family[  OK  ]
Mar 12 12:27:56 fedora vmware[38059]:    Virtual ethernet[FAILED]
Mar 12 12:27:56 fedora vmware[38059]:    VMware Authentication Daemon[  OK  ]
Mar 12 12:27:56 fedora systemd[1]: vmware.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 12 12:27:56 fedora systemd[1]: vmware.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 12 12:27:56 fedora systemd[1]: vmware.service: Unit process 1513 (vmware-authdlau) remains running after unit stopped.
Mar 12 12:27:56 fedora systemd[1]: vmware.service: Unit process 38110 (vmware-authdlau) remains running after unit stopped.
Mar 12 12:27:56 fedora systemd[1]: vmware.service: Unit process 38111 (logger) remains running after unit stopped.
Mar 12 12:27:56 fedora systemd[1]: Failed to start vmware.service - SYSV: This service starts and stops VMware services.

[mkubecek]

Then try to unload and load the modules manually and see what happens.

[Cesarsk]

This can be closed.

I solved by re-enrolling the keys for vmmon and vmnet after the kernel update. I noticed they got lost going into the BIOS.

:)