@continuum wrote:
You may have noticed that the free VirtualBox usually installs flawlessly.
VirtualBox is prone to the same kind of problems but it's usually (not always) faster to catch up.
By the way - since Windows 10 the same applies to Windows hosts.
At the moment using Win10 / 11 and latest Ubuntu may break your Workstation-setup with the next update.
There is one big difference, though: with "Category B Linux", the source is public for both the kernel and the VMware host modules. So either you can adapt the modules to recent changes yourself or someone else can. With Windows, all you can do is to wait for VMware.
My understanding of the core problem is that VMware does not actually understand linux worlds and their mindset is based on the old notion of "supported OS systems" (there is an actual list for both guest and host side). This list consists of some versions of best known (to them) linux distributions, mostly the enterprise flavor: RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu and few selected others. Even for these, recent releases and service packs are often missing. Rolling type distributions (Fedora, openSUSE Tumbleweed etc.) or less known distributions are our of their sight and thinking in terms of kernel versions rather than "supported host systems" is completely out of question. Well, perhaps not for developers (or at least not completely) but certainly for managers who make decisions about what will be released and when. And with Workstation (or even Player) itself being far from company focus, it would be naive to expect a significant change of the approach.
