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On 21/12/12 17:34, bad apple wrote:
I used to have exactly the same experience as you until I started using the evaluation/beta test releases as a free download. Since then, I've done maybe 3 VMWare Workstation upgrades and have had no recompile prompts after kernel upgrades.Just posting this in case anyone else runs into it. If any of you have the misfortune to have to use VMWare Workstation you'll probably be familiar with the fix patches distributed from here: http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/ In short, VMWare are completely incompetent and their flagship Workstation product (as well as the free Player tool) routinely fail to compile the necessary kernel modules to run after install on any vaguely modern kernel, and I really do mean, every single time. On all distros, and on pretty much every kernel you'll have to find the correct patch, modify it to your kernel revision and cross your fingers. Recently even the patches haven't been working as VMWare have broken their bootstrap utility so it will complain about not finding your (completely validly) installed linux-headers package. By some miracle I've just found and tested a proposed fix, and it works.
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