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Hello M ! by the way, I want to say thank you for the excellent job with fixes !! Helped my ass many times ! I'm pretty busy with TUV/FDA audit preparations. Hope I have time to look into it before X-Mas. Regards G.

Did the MKubecek fix actually compile successfully ? Which kernel version do you have ? I was using the standard kernel in ALMA 8.5 - which should be a clone of RHEL 8.5. The ML kernel (5.x) gave me headaches, so I reverted back to to the standard 4.x for ALMA. Ane even it should have compiled, i had to modify the crosspage.c file #ifdef __linux__ # include <linux/version.h> # undef __RHEL_OBJTOOL_H_HACK # ifdef RHEL_RELEASE_CODE # if RHEL_RELEASE_CODE >= RHEL_RELEASE_VERSION(8, 5) # define __RHEL_OBJTOOL_H_HACK # endif # endif # include "driver-config.h" # if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(5, 10, 0) # if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(5, 10, 0) || \ defined(__RHEL_OBJTOOL_H_HACK) # include <linux/objtool.h> # elif LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 6, 0) # include <linux/frame.h>   <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<    changed to <asm/frame.h> other than this I can only give you the second most famous phrase of a software developer: "But it works on my machine" (after "But I only changed one line")  

Sorry I forgot to mention, I actually did get the Player 16.2.1 up and running under Alma Linux 8.5. After install of 16.2.1 (failed with the vmmon/vmnet). I tried a crap-shot with compiling the modules from mkubeceks github above. You will get an error in the C-file crosspage.c / line 53 missing the frame.h file. So instead of the <linux/frame.h> I grabed the <asm/frame.h>. I had no time to investigate, but at least everything runs this way. Be careful ! This is a total crap-shot !

FYI: Its not officially supported, but VMWare Workstation on RHEL 8.4 host works if you use the patches from here https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules However, for me a RHEL 8.5 host crashes with a hard reset when I start VMware Workstation (I have 15.5.7)