VMWare Workstation 15.5.6 , 64 bit, Fedora 31 , Kernel 5.7.7-100.fc31.x86_64 modules fail to compile on kernel upgrade.

[AnandKulkarniSG]

Issue : - As stated above , currently using vmware workstation 15.5.6 and stated kernel version in subject. upon upgrading to this kernel had to recompile the vmware modules and that fails.

The entire error log is attached below. Kindly help.

Error log is attached to this discussion thread. Kindly help!

[scott28tt]

Something here may help: kernel 5.7.6 build failure

[AnandKulkarniSG]

Is there an article on how to use that patch from github : GitHub - mkubecek/vmware-host-modules: Patches needed to build VMware (Player and Workstation) host ...

i.e all it has is Makefile where do i place it when running / attempting to run kernel recompile ? is there a vmware-modules github package that helps recompile each module by module seperately ?

[scott28tt]

I don’t know, perhaps ask that on the other thread I linked to.

[AnandKulkarniSG · Accepted solution]

here are the exact steps.

1. Clone new module source from https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules.git by running a git clone on below branch:

git clone -b workstation-15.0.2 https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules.git

2. Create new tar files for vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar from the git.

3. Replace the 2 original files on /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/ [ backup the originals before replacing, safety sake ]

4. Then run sudo vmware-modconfig –console –install-all