I installed ubuntu 19.04 recently, but my vmware workstation 15.04 stop working

[FrankLee2019]

Hi all,

I recently installed Ubuntu 19.04. But it seems vmware worksation 15.04  stop working because the virtual network device failed.

Anyone knows how to handle this situation?

Thanks very much

Frank

[daphnissov]

Anyone knows how to handle this situation?

Yes, roll-back to 18.04 because 19.04 is not supported as a host operating system for Workstation 15.x.

[FrankLee2019]

Any solution available so far?

[vbgeoff]

You have 2x choices:

Supported and old Ubuntu

There is no Ubuntu 19 support yet - you must downgrade to Ubuntu 18.x to retain support.

Unsupported and working

This git repository:

GitHub - mkubecek/vmware-host-modules: Patches needed to build VMware (Player and Workstation) host ...

Has patches to support the latest VMWare workstation (15.0.4) on Linux 5.0 - you need to select the correct branch and then compile and install the kernel modules.

For me, that looked like this (workstation already setup with kernel headers, compilers, etc):

git clone https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules

cd vmware-host-modules/

git checkout workstation-15.0.4

make

sudo make install

After rebooting it Workstation 15.0.4 works OK. Completely unsupported but better that not working...

You will have to repeat the above if you upgrade VMWare Workstation until Ubuntu 19.x is supported, so make sure a branch exists before upgrading....

HTH