Ubuntu 15.04 & VMware Workstation 11.1

[RichardET]

I installed the latest Ubuntu last night - unfortunately VMware is now broken. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, but the kernel modules fail to build.
It's really annoying.

[sammiev]

We need a new update from VMware so we can use the latest kernel in 15o4. I used a old kernel a few weeks back and was good to go.

[RichardET]

Found the solution:
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/509225

This can be fixed by running the following steps as Root (in a terminal):

Step 1: log in as root (e.g. sudo -s)
Step 2: Enter your Root password.
Step 3: Enter these commands:

curl http://pastie.org/pastes/9934018/download -o /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar -xf vmnet.tar
patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch
mv vmnet.tar vmnet.tar.SAVED
tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
rm -r vmnet-only
vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

VMware will now compile the vmnet module for Kernel 3.19. (please make sure you have DKMS installed)

Hope it will work for you. In my case this solved the problem with VMware Player 7.

[sammiev]

Found the solution:
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/509225

This can be fixed by running the following steps as Root (in a terminal):

Step 1: log in as root (e.g. sudo -s)
Step 2: Enter your Root password.
Step 3: Enter these commands:

curl http://pastie.org/pastes/9934018/download -o /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar -xf vmnet.tar
patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch
mv vmnet.tar vmnet.tar.SAVED
tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
rm -r vmnet-only
vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

VMware will now compile the vmnet module for Kernel 3.19. (please make sure you have DKMS installed)

Hope it will work for you. In my case this solved the problem with VMware Player 7.

I will have to wait for the update as it will not work for me on 3.19.0-15-generic. but Thanks

[sub sexy]

Thanks Richard. This worked for me as well after a clean install. Thanks a million for the information

[dexxster]

Hi,

it worked for me on latest Ubuntu 15 doing so:

wget http://pastie.org/pastes/9934018/download -o /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch
cat /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch
cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar -xf vmnet.tar
patch -p0 -i /tmp/download
mv vmnet.tar vmnet.tar.SAVED
tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
rm -r vmnet-only
vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
cat /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch

I hope it works for you too.

[Featalene]

I'm trying this patch with VMware Workstation 10 with kernels from 3.19.0-15 through 3.19.0-18 with no success. If the patch is different for WS 10 would some kind person point me in the right direction? If there is a different patch available I seem to be google-challenged at the moment.

[au10tic]

hmm, i am using workstation 11.1.0 build-2496824 ubuntu has kernel 3.19.0.18-generic, but something doesnt match here.

in the steps above it says cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source but there is no "vmware" folder on the installation path, there is a vmware-tools also once you're inside the /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source folder there is no vmnet.tar file, there are vmxnet.tar and a vmxnet3.tar

so when i follow the steps above by richardet just modifying the path and file, when i run patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch i get the below;
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -ur vmnet-only.a/driver.c vmnet-only/driver.c
|--- vmnet-only.a/driver.c 2014-11-20 20:13:56.000000000 -0500
|+++ vmnet-only/driver.c 2015-02-09 15:40:10.916640592 -0500
--------------------------
File to patch:

so is waiting for me to i guess provide a file, any advice?

[KartDriver]

The solution posted by RichardET worked great for me on Kubuntu 15.04 with VMWare Workstation 11.1!

Thanks!

[vincentertainment]

Thank you, RichardET!
This worked for me.