Hi,
Sorry to have forgotten to post here with my results.
The script /etc/init.d/vmware needs an extra hack because RHEL now includes vmw_* drivers by default.
The hack that worked for me was:
# diff -c vmware.orig vmware
*** vmware.orig 2017-08-01 12:33:02.438186297 -0400
--- vmware 2017-08-01 12:32:42.369169536 -0400
***************
*** 171,177 ****
mod_alias=$2
alias_file="/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.alias"
! modname=$(/sbin/modprobe -R ${mod_alias} 2>/dev/null)
if [ $? = 0 -a "$modname" != "" ] ; then
echo $modname
elif grep -F ${mod_alias} ${alias_file} >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
--- 171,177 ----
mod_alias=$2
alias_file="/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.alias"
! modname=$(/sbin/modprobe -R ${mod_alias} 2>/dev/null|grep -v '^vmw_')
if [ $? = 0 -a "$modname" != "" ] ; then
echo $modname
elif grep -F ${mod_alias} ${alias_file} >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
It would be nice if VMware could be more specific when 'grepping' for module names.
In this case, we have a collision between vmw_vmci.ko and vmci.ko from vmware.
