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VMware Player also lets you restore the virtual machine to its previous state, thus preventing any unwanted changes made to your computer. The tar file contents unpack into the user’s current working directory (which should be /tmp from step 1 above).VMware Workstation Player lets you launch any previously created virtual machines on your computer - this makes testing and installing different applications easy and safe. Follow the process above, but for step 2, download a tar file instead of getting each file. I developed/tested this using kernel 5.18.13. VMware Player 16.2.4 requires some additional patches. If you’re ready then execute “sudo bash vmware.16.2.kernel.5.18.sh”Īs you can see at the end of the script you’ll either get the output of “systemctl status vmware” if the patch and build worked or a “failed” message if not. Be sure you’re OK with what it will do.Ĥ.

In vmnet, the files userif.c and bridge.cģ.

You can see the list at the top of the bash script. There are three C source files that need to be fixed up. and greater, we need to apply these patches for every VMware version 16 update. I put together the patch files and a bash shell script to fix up the kernel module C source code. When you update your system and get the latest 5.18 kernel, your VMware becomes unusable. It’s probably similar for later 5.18 kernels. VMware 16.2 to 16.2.3Īs of June 17th, 2022, VMware Workstation 16.2 kernel modules fail to build when running Linux kernel 5.18.

Review the bash shell script so that you know what it’s doing. VMware Workstation/Player 16.2/Player 16.2.4 and Linux kernels 5.18