Comments on: VMware Workstation and Linux 2.6.26

By: Jehster

Jehster — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:34:32 +0000

Spoke too soon… vmware starts but can’t communicate with any of my guests… fuggit… back to 2.6.18 I go.

By: Jehster

Jehster — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:26:32 +0000

Well thank you very much! I can’t believe how something as useful as vmware has become so much of a pain. And don’t even get me started on vmware-server 2… blech….

By: Hristofor Georgiev

Hristofor Georgiev — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:42:29 +0000

Thank you very much for this great link.

It realy help me a lot today when i got: Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 138.0, got 168.0

On etch updated to lenny with Workstation 5.5.

Thank you very much.

By: VMware Workstation and Linux 2.6.27 | emil krueper

VMware Workstation and Linux 2.6.27 | emil krueper — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:57:20 +0000

[...] I received a comment from Kang about a fix for VMware Workstation 5.xy and Linux [...]

By: kang

kang — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:34:32 +0000

there’s updates on http://www.insecure.ws/
but of course, i’m not doing it the same day as the kernel is releaed and so on.. so using something else than vmware or a newer vmware version is probably recommended. unless you’re like me and gotta stick with it x)

By: emillkrueper

emillkrueper — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:22:39 +0000

It works well with 2.6.26 _but_ I haven’t found a solution for 2.6.27 yet. When applying different vmware-any-any-updates I always got something like:

/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/./include/compat_semaphore.h:5:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1831: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27′
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only’
Unable to build the vmmon module.

The new NVIDIA driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.80-pkg1.run works perfect associated with linux 2.6.27. But obviously it’s always always always the same with vmware. Good to know I don’t need vmware any longer. Nevertheless, I’ll keep you updated with any progress here. So stick to Linux 2.6.26 for now when you’d like to use vmware. Best regards.

By: Tino

Tino — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:02:57 +0000

Son of a bitch, it worked! I’ve been holding off on upgrading to the 2.6.26 kernel because of this issue and this solved the problem. Thanks!!

Of course, I get Workstation to work under 2.6.26.6 the same day 2.6.27 comes out … wonder if it’ll be the same crap all over again.

By: Michael Fischer

Michael Fischer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:54:59 +0000

Thank you for posting the link to vmware-any-any-update117. I had the same problem as you, and it works for me, too.