Hotel release linux headers gives errors when creating vmware modules

[snazzybunny]

This could be vmware related but I installed the latest hotel release and did a sudo apt update and then sudo apt upgrade. How do I check if the kernel headers are installed?

Maybe vmware cannot be installed for this kernel version as I am getting the same errors as last time. One of the error output lines is <builtin>: recipe for target 'driver.o' failed. Any chance you could try to install vmware and see if you get the same results? Thanks.

[nexus511]

Kernel headers are normally not installed automatically. You need to install kernel-headers-generic or at least check, if kernel-headers-generic is installed.

I for myself will not install vmware on my device as I am not planning to provide support for all proprietary software out there. I have actually tested KVM which has build-in support and works well on the GPD Pocket.

If anyone can provide a useful PR that fixes issues with vmware, please feel free to submit one.

[snazzybunny]

VMware is confirmed to work now. I just assumed it would install the headers when I did an upgrade. Thanks.

sudo apt install linux-headers-generic sudo su cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar xf vmnet.tar cd vmnet-only wget https://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/2688951-180357/VMware-Workstation-12.5.7-kernel4.13-atomic-inc.patch.zip unzip VMware-Workstation-12.5.7-kernel4.13-atomic-inc.patch.zip patch < VMware-Workstation-12.5.7-kernel4.13-atomic-inc.patch make cd .. tar xf vmmon.tar cd vmmon-only make cd .. cp vmmon.o /lib/modules/uname -r/kernel/drivers/misc/vmmon.ko cp vmnet.o /lib/modules/uname -r/kernel/drivers/misc/vmnet.ko depmod -a /etc/init.d/vmware restart

[nexus511]

Great! Thank you for sharing the solution.

I'll close it then as it should be easy to find the ticket if anyone else reaches out with problems.