On 11/01/2024 13.48, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 03:36:32PM -0800, Sherman Grunewagen via users wrote:
Hello all.
Does anyone have VMware Workstation Pro 17.5.0 running with any of the
later 6.6.X kernels?
I'm having a hard time getting it to run with a Fedora 38
installation. I'm fully updated as of 2 days ago, including the 6.6.9
kernel. When I try to start Workstation directly after VMware
installation I get a popup saying that the kernel-headers package for
kernel-6.6.9 is missing and so it can't build some modules. the problem is that
the kernel-headers package for 6.6.9 is missing from Updates. The latest
package is
for 6.6.3.
Does the popup actually say that you need a newer kernel-headers
package? Because we should provide feedback to VMWare that what
they're really asking for is a kernel-devel package for the running
kernel. The kernel-headers package is just for compiling userspace
programs, and only is updated when there's an API change that affects
userspace.
I suspect that the "headers" part is coming from the Debian/Ubuntu
world, because I think their kernel source is in a linux-headers
package.
Yes, the popup explicitly says that the 6.6.9 headers are needed (as I'm
running kernel-6.6.9).
Here's a screenshot of the popup: <http://tinyurl.com/VMwarePop>. (I don't
know how to make
hot links. :-))
-- Sherman
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