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rgadsdon
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Plan for VMware Workstation 12.5.8, and a Fix for Fedora 26 and GCC 7?

VMware 12.5.7 has been out for two months now, with no update for support of GCC 7 or Fedora 26 (and later versions of Ubuntu, apparently)..

VMware have announced the next upgrade of VMware Workstation - version 14 ( rather than 13 ) - and this is supposed to include ''updated Linux support for Fedora 26 and Ubuntu 17.04'' amongst other features, but this is not due to be available until October.

The issues with Fedora 26 and GCC 7 with VMware 12.5.7 have been well documented, and rather messy workarounds are available, but it would be unfortunate if the only official solution was to pay for an upgrade to Workstation 14.

Is there a planned release date for VMware 12.5.8, with these fixes included?

Robert Gadsdon.

rglinuxtech.com

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parmarr
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Workstation 12.5.7 was GA as of June 22, 2017. We do not have the answer as to when the release is for 12.5.8. Customer can try downloading the Workstation Pro Tech Preview 2017 by logging into My VMware to see the new features. But at the moment there is no support update for Fedora 26 and GCC 7.

Sincerely, Rahul Parmar VMware Support Moderator
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rgadsdon
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I had already tried the Tech Preview, but it fails to work with GCC 7.1.1 on F26..  ''A compatible version of gcc was not found''

RG.