VMware WS 15.0.2 fails to compile on Ubuntu Disco with the just released Linux Kernel 5.0.0 (final)

[mfelker]

Hi:

     I installed VMware WS 15 on Ubuntu Disco fully up to date.  Installed Kernel 5.0.0 from the Ubuntu Mainline - Linus has released the final.    Not surprisingly it failed to install and I am attaching the log files in zip format from /tmp/vmware-root and /tmp/vmware-marty and hope somebody can look at them.   Of course I can (and might if nobody has any ideas - but more importantly if somebody has had success with their patch(es).    Ubuntu Disco will be released next month - probably with kernel 4.20.    But if and when Ubuntu is released with the newest kernel I hope VMware will be ready with a kernel fix.   FWIW the current compiler version (unlike Fedora) is still 8.2.   Also Virtualbox compiles and runs without a hitch - I have the lastest Windows Insider program (build 18845 - 20H1) running with Shared Folders and all extentions.   I would rather not have to dual boot with kernel 4.20 or keep on using VMware on Windows (where it is working fine on Build 18845 20H1.

TIA

mf

[towo2099 · Accepted solution]

Use the patched modules from here¹

¹ GitHub - mkubecek/vmware-host-modules at workstation-15.0.2

[mfelker]

Evidently you did not read my OP closely.   My question to you is whether you have successfully installed WS 15 on a Linux distro using kernel 5.0.0.?   If so please provide details and I may go to the trouble of uninstalling a working version of WS on kernel 4.20.

[towo2099]

Sure i have running VMware on kernel 5.0.0. But one has to use the patched modules from that link.

[mfelker]

OK.   I will try it when I get the chance.   What host are you running?

[towo2099]

towo:Defiant> inxi -SGMI

System:    Host: Defiant Kernel: 5.0.0-towo.1-siduction-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.9

           Distro: siduction 18.3.0 Patience - cinnamon - (201811060008)

Machine:   Type: Desktop System: CSL- & KG product: A0000001 v: N/A serial: <root required>

           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING v: Rev 1.xx serial: <root required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1201

           date: 12/07/2018

Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] driver: amdgpu

           v: kernel

           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz

           OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.27.0 5.0.0-towo.1-siduction-amd64 LLVM 8.0.0)

           v: 4.5 Mesa 19.1.0-devel

Info:      Processes: 310 Uptime: 2h 28m Memory: 31.42 GiB used: 2.59 GiB (8.3%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.32

That.

[mfelker]

Sorry for all the bother.  Your patches and instructions worked perfectly.   Running make and sudo make install and then rebooting enabled WS 15.0.2 to run on Ubuntu Disco with kernel

5.0.0-050000-generic