I am having issues with the vmmon module when loading the kernel module updater on my arch workstation.
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on to "/lib/modules/4.14.13-1-ARCH/misc/vmmon.ko".
2018-01-19T20:31:06.704-07:00| vthread-4| I125: Extracting the vmmon source from "/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar".
2018-01-19T20:31:06.806-07:00| vthread-4| I125: Successfully extracted the vmmon source.
2018-01-19T20:31:06.806-07:00| vthread-4| I125: Building module with command "/sbin/make -j8 -C /tmp/modconfig-eOUCAE/vmmon-only auto-build HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/4.14.13-1-ARCH/build/include CC=/sbin/gcc IS_GCC_3=no"
2018-01-19T20:31:12.421-07:00| vthread-4| W115: Failed to build vmmon. Failed to execute the build command.
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Tried this but had no success:
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2018-01-18T17:41:31.143-07:00| vthread-4| I125: Invoking modinfo on "vmmon".
2018-01-18T17:41:31.145-07:00| vthread-4| I125: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 256.
2018-01-18T17:41:31.951-07:00| vthread-4| I125: Setting destination path for vmmon to "/lib/modules/4.14.13-1-ARCH/misc/vmmon.ko".
2018-01-18T17:41:31.951-07:00| vthread-4| I125: Extracting the vmmon source from "/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar".
2018-01-18T17:41:31.958-07:00| vthread-4| I125: Successfully extracted the vmmon source.
2018-01-18T17:41:31.958-07:00| vthread-4| I125: Building module with command "/sbin/make -j8 -C /tmp/modconfig-BsUcZS/vmmon-only auto-build HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/4.14.13-1-ARCH/build/include CC=/sbin/gcc IS_GCC_3=no"
2018-01-18T17:41:33.952-07:00| vthread-4| W115: Failed to build vmmon. Failed to execute the build command.
# cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
# tar xf vmmon.tar
# mv vmmon.tar vmmon.old.tar
# sed -i 's/uvAddr, numPages, 0, 0/uvAddr, numPages, 0/g' vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c
# tar cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
# rm -r vmmon-only
# tar xf vmnet.tar
# mv vmnet.tar vmnet.old.tar
# sed -i 's/addr, 1, 1, 0/addr, 1, 0/g' vmnet-only/userif.c
# tar cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
# rm -r vmnet-only
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