On 2024-01-10 19:06, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 1/10/24 15:36, Sherman Grunewagen via users wrote:
Does anyone have VMware Workstation Pro 17.5.0 running with any of the
later 6.6.X kernels?

I'm having a hard time getting it to run with a Fedora 38
installation.  I'm fully updated as of 2 days ago, including the 6.6.9
kernel.  When I try to start Workstation directly after VMware
installation I get a popup saying that the kernel-headers package for
kernel-6.6.9 is missing and so it can't build some modules. the problem is that the kernel-headers package for 6.6.9 is missing from Updates. The latest package is
for 6.6.3.

That sounds like a broken build system.  The kernel-headers package doesn't get updated for every kernel if they haven't changed.

Have you tried using qemu/kvm instead?

I have had a bad experience with F39 and VMWare Player. I've made it work initially using above mentioned modules, but it was highly unstable. The machine would randomly stop crucial services, announce CPU core errors and eventually the only way out would be a hard reset, just to have to whole thing repeated in a day or two.

I converted my VMWare disks into QEMU disk and I've been running QEMU every since. Rock solid, no problems with kernel modules and frequent kernel updates.

I'd highly recommend to go this way.  The choice is yours, of course.

Cheers
Frank

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