VMware Workstation 8.0.2 / Player 4.0.2 fix for linux kernel 3.2 and 3.3

UPDATE: Looks like a patch which I did previously for 3.2 wasn’t needed anymore for 3.3 (seems to be a 3.2 specific problem) and so I didn’t include it as I’m just running 3.3-rc1. Now I’ve included it again and updated the archive so if you’ve downloaded it and had problems you can get a proper version now.

Looks like VMware upgraded their virtualization solution and fixed some issues of their modules, but not all. So some patches which were already in the previous patch are still needed. I don’t know if this lack of support for recent linux kernel (even released as stable since more than half a month and that some distributions are starting to send to users) is, as the user who notified me of the new release of VMware said, done on purpose. In any case nothing changes so I’ve made a simple package with the only patch still needed on vmnet to make it work on the linux kernel 3.2 and 3.3.

NOTE: If you had used a patch in the past (using the patching script) the installer of VMware workstation/player won’t remove the file which tells the script that the sources are not patched, so, In case you get an error saying that your sources are already patched, remove the file /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/.patched . This will tell the script that the sources are actually not patched. Another solution is restoring the backup before the upgrade.

You can grab the patch here:

vmware workstation 8.0.2 / player 4.0.2 fix for linux 3.2+

Attached Files:

• vmware workstation 8.0.2 / player 4.0.2 fix for linux 3.2+

  fix to make vmware modules shipped with vmware workstation 8.0.2 and vmware player 4.0.2 build on linux 3.2+

下载附件，因为不支持gz文件，所以重新压缩了下。