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JuergenN1
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‎09-02-2022 01:12 AM

Opensuse 15.4/vmware player 16.2.4: "could not open /dev/vmmon"

Hi all,

I just have a fresh installation of Opensuse 15.4 (without "secure boot"!) and installed the vmware plaer 16.2.4. Directly after installation it works well, but after rebooting my computer the error "could not open /dev/vmmon/".

After looking in Google, I found the solution to run: sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

This works BUT ONLY TO THE NEXT RESTART OF MY PC!

So every time I reboot my PC I have to run "sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all"... On my old machine I used Vmware 16.0.0, which works well even after updating kernel, but 16.0.0 will not compile on the new system.

What can I do to get the module vmmon and vmnet getting persistently into the system???

Thank you in advance.

 

Regards

Juergen

 

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JuergenN1
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‎09-02-2022 03:02 AM

Some more information: both modules are stored in

/lib/modules/5.14.21-150400.24.18-default/misc/

and also listed in the modules.dep file.

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JuergenN1
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‎09-03-2022 01:13 AM

Another update: modprobe the "old" vmmon/vmnet from the day before doesnt help, Vmware crashes without message...

 

I'm wondering about the message during build:

 LD [M]  /tmp/modconfig-rIOlqY/vmnet-only/vmnet.o
 MODPOST /tmp/modconfig-rIOlqY/vmnet-only/Module.symvers
 CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-rIOlqY/vmnet-only/vmnet.mod.o
 LD [M]  /tmp/modconfig-rIOlqY/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko
 BTF [M] /tmp/modconfig-rIOlqY/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko
Skipping BTF generation for /tmp/modconfig-rIOlqY/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko due to unavailability of vmlinux
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/usr/src/linux-5.14.21-150400.24.18-obj/x86_64/default“ wird verlassen

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