I just installed 17.10 this morning. VMWare 12.5.5, 12.5.6 and 12.5.7 all fail to work.
The first issue is that the regular GUI won't work.
The symptom was in journalctl:
vmware-modconfi[9120]: segfault at 2240 ip 0000000000002240 sp 00007ffe6a87f0a8 error 14 in appLoader[5556b3807000+ad000]
This was solved by
# cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1
# mv libz.so.1 libz.so.1.old
# ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1
Now, launching vmware will open the gui, but complain about missing gcc (even though gcc is indeed installed, as is all build-essential). Also, from the command line:
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
Failed to get gcc information
I then followed some instructions from the Arch community and manually compiled the vmnet and vmmon modules:
# cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
# tar xf vmmon.tar
# tar xf vmnet.tar
# cd vmmon-only
# make
# mkdir /lib/modules/<mykernversion>/misc
# cp vmmon.o /lib/modules/<mykernversion>/misc
# cd ../vmnet-only
# make
# cp vmnet.ol /lib/modules/<mykernversion>/misc
# depmod -a
Now run vmware directly, bypassing the gcc check:
# /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
But same error.
I tried to insmod the modules directly as:
# insmod /lib/modules/<mykernversion>/misc/vmmon.o
However, it would state "Invalid format".
Help please!?!
Thanks.
