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VMware-Workstation-Full-17.0.0-20800274.x86_64.bundle CopyĪfter installing additional packages for VMware, run the program from the applications.

filename.bundle” to start the installation. To make the bundle file executable, first, execute the chmod command and then “sudo. Let me know if something doesn’t work.After updating your Linux Mint system, execute the “cd ~/Downloads/” command to go to the location where you downloaded the bundle file and view the contents of the Downloads directory with the “ls” command. If you’re ready then execute “sudo bash vmware.15.0.kernel.5.0.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.

Download the three files you need as follows:.

There are two C source files that need to be fixed up: Review the bash shell script so that you know what it’s doing. The unpatched, original tar files are saved with “unpatched” appended and if these already exist are moved back to their original names. It will stop if applying a patch fails and also handles running the script multiple times.

I’ve updated the vmware.15.0.3.kernel.5.0.3.sh script and renamed it to vmware.15.0.kernel.5.0.sh.

VMware just released 15.0.4 and the patches appear to work for 15.0.4 as well.

I’ll test as soon as it’s available via dnf.

Kernel 5.0.4 is out and I don’t expect there to be a difference.

I installed it and it’s working straight out the box. Looks like VMware Workstation release 15.1.0 does not need these patches. The patch of hostif.c could be better but I wanted to get this published ASAP. I dug around and figured out how to patch the VMware kernel modules and it appears to work. VMware Workstation and Player won’t compile on a Linux system, e.g., Fedora 29, running the new kernel 5.0.3.