VMware Workstation 15 Player installation failed

[khode_yaroo]

Hi guys, I'm using Parrot OS I want to install vmware but I get this error

what's wrong? thanks

[scott28tt]

Parrot is not a supported host OS for Workstation: VMware Knowledge Base​

This article is for Workstation Pro but may also work for Workstation Player: parrot-docu-en/10.- Installing VMware Workstation Pro on Parrot Security.md at master · josegatica/p...

[khode_yaroo]

thanks for the reply. did you check the log file? look at this lines

2020-05-18T14:21:22.064+04:30| host-27192| I125+ /tmp/modconfig-WScvME/vmnet-only/userif.c: In function ‘VNetCsumCopyDatagram’:

2020-05-18T14:21:22.064+04:30| host-27192| I125+ /tmp/modconfig-WScvME/vmnet-only/userif.c:571:15: error: ‘skb_frag_t’ {aka ‘const struct bio_vec’} has no member named ‘size’

2020-05-18T14:21:22.064+04:30| host-27192| I125+   571 |       if (frag->size > 0) {

2020-05-18T14:21:22.064+04:30| host-27192| I125+       |               ^~

2020-05-18T14:21:22.064+04:30| host-27192| I125+ /tmp/modconfig-WScvME/vmnet-only/userif.c:575:29: error: ‘skb_frag_t’ {aka ‘const struct bio_vec’} has no member named ‘page’; did you mean ‘bv_page’?

2020-05-18T14:21:22.064+04:30| host-27192| I125+   575 |   vaddr = compat_kmap(frag->page);

I guess this is VMware issue, isn't it?

as you know my os is based on Debian 10.

[khode_yaroo · Accepted solution]

I installed VMware 15.5.2 and problem solved