After applying the vmnet and vmmon patch due to upgrading to a new kernel on a debian-based system, I'm getting the following error:
The virtual machine is unable to reserve memory. If selecting Retry does not work, try closing programs on the host machine to free memory first.
For more information about this error, see "http://vmware.com/info?id=19".
I'm trying to run a VM on a machine which has plenty amount of RAM, on top of this a 4GB swap partition is put in place. I reviewed all the threads I found on similar issues and haven't found a solution. The issue happens when both trying to run a 32-bit and 64-bit vms.
If any additional information is required in order to reproduce the issue please let me know.
Things I did to get the VMWare to actually install after upgrading to kernel 4.9:
changed the functions get_user_pages to get_user_pages_remote in hostif.c and userif.c as well as adding a ,1 parameter in the end. Otherwise vmnet and vmmon failed to build.
Fixing the vmnet failed and vmmon failed issue on kernel 4.9 (replace get_user_pages with get_user_pages_remote and add an additional '1' as a parameter at the end)
# cat /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet-only/userif.c | grep -C 2 get_user_pages_remote
down_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem);
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 6, 0)
retval = get_user_pages_remote(addr, 1, 1, 0, &page, NULL, 1);
#else
retval = get_user_pages_remote(current, current->mm, addr,
1, 1, 0, &page, NULL);
#
cat /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c | grep -C 2 get_user_pages_remote
down_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem);
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 6, 0)
retval = get_user_pages_remote((unsigned long)uvAddr, numPages, 0, 0, ppages, NULL, 1);
#else
retval = get_user_pages_remote(current, current->mm, (unsigned long)uvAddr,
numPages, 0, 0, ppages, NULL);
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all; echo "SUCCESS" \(that\'s for the copy-pasters.\)
