How to install vmware host modules?

[Pavel Vlček]

Hi,

my friend downgraded the Ubuntu for me, so I now have 22.04 LTS, but the 
issue with Vmware still exists.

Thanks,

Pavel


Dne 01.10.2023 v 8:05 Jared Norris napsal(a):
>
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2023 at 04:40, Pavel Vlček <vlcekpavel93 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     My name is Pavel, I am from Czech republic and I use Ubuntu 23.10
>     beta
>     with Orca screen reader and with Mate desktop. I don't know what
>     happened, but I am unable to boot to the usb etc, F12 key stopped
>     working after installing Ubuntu Mate and maybe systemd-boot, which I
>     successfully removed for now, I have Acer Swift sf 314 I think, but I
>     have a question related to vmware. I downloaded the Vmware
>     workstation
>     17.0.2 full. I installed it, but of course, kernel modules can't be
>     compiled.
>
>     So I cloned the mkubecek/vmware-host-modules repository, switched to
>     17.0.2 branch, executed make sudo make install and now, I can open
>     Vmware application, but when I want to start vm, I get error about no
>     module /dev/vmmon, and error initializing monitor. Can I somehow
>     solve this?
>
>     Thanks a lot,
>
>     Pavel
>
>     Note: Because I don't know what happened with F12, I can not
>     downgrade
>     to older Ubuntu version, so I hope I can get Vmware working under
>     23.10
>     beta.
>
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>
> Hi Pavel,
>
> Ubuntu 23.10 is still under development so I recommend you talk to the 
> people on the development mailing list - 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-devel-discuss
>
> Beta releases are not expected to be run in production environments 
> and are known to have issues that users of the production environment 
> are unlikely to be aware of.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jared Norris
>
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