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Fedora 26 - VMware Workstation 12.5.x patch (works with kernel 4.12.8 !!)
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#/bin/sh | |
# Credit - Khaled Ben naaman (via http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1992) | |
dnf install elfutils-libelf-devel | |
cp -r /usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.1.0/lib/lib/libexpat.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib | |
cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1 | |
mv -i libz.so.1 libz.so.1.old | |
ln -s /usr/lib64/libz.so.1 . | |
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc | |
tar -xvf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar –directory /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source | |
cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only | |
make | |
cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc | |
cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc | |
tar -xvf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar –directory /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source | |
cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet-only | |
make | |
cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc | |
depmod -a | |
modprobe vmmon | |
modprobe vmnet | |
/etc/init.d/vmware restart |
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