How to install vmware host modules?

Pavel VlĨek vlcekpavel93 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 30 18:38:34 UTC 2023


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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