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mkubecek / vmware-host-modules

Patches needed to build VMware (Player and Workstation) host modules against recent kernels
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17.0.2 won't build on Fedora #226

Closed duganchen closed 1 year ago

duganchen commented 1 year ago

17.0.2. doesn't build on Fedora.

I did get it building with the patches described in these two threads:

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Workstation-2023-Tech-Preview/Linux-Kernel-6-5-rc-vmmon-compile-fails/td-p/2981003

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Cannot-compile-vmnet-kernel-module-on-kernel-6-4-10/td-p/2982156

mkubecek commented 1 year ago
  1. Both issues addressed by these patches have been already fixed in workstation-17.0.2 branch quite some time ago. In other words, you are either building from a different source or your local repository is outdated. (Both problems repeat all the time and are, in fact, responsible for a majority of issue reports here. :-( )
  2. I strongly recommend not to use the pte_offset_kernel() trick as it is known to cause serious issues with some kernel configurations.