Fedora 36 Support for Workstation

[montanajava]

Hi folks,

I wonder if anyone has got Workstation Pro 16.2.3 to work in Fedora 36, and if so, how.

Thanks and best,

montanajava

[ClassANetwork]

I have also have a support case in for this, so also wondering. Fedora 33 was released 2 years ago and is the latest released stated to be supported...

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/80807

[montanajava]

I figured it out based on a reply in this forum for Ubuntu 22 Support. Original thread here: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMware-16-2-3-not-working-on-Ubuntu-22-04-L...

As root:

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
git clone https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules
cd vmware-host-modules
git checkout workstation-16.2.3
make
tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
tar -cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
mv vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/

Apparently we will have to do something along these lines every time we update VMware until they catch up.

[ClassANetwork]

That worked awesome, thanks! 

FYI for anyone else, I moved both vmnet.tar and vmmon.tar into /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/