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Script to make the latest Linux Kernel work with VMWare Workstation
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#!/bin/bash | |
## Script to make the latest Linux Kernel work with VMWare Workstation | |
## Automated since it was too annoying to run the commands after each Kernel update | |
## Tested with Linux Kernel 5.9.8 & VMWare Workstation 16.1.0 | |
## Alexander Hagenah (@xaitax) | |
VERSION=16.1.0 | |
wget https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/archive/workstation-${VERSION}.tar.gz | |
tar -xzf workstation-${VERSION}.tar.gz | |
cd vmware-host-modules-workstation-${VERSION} | |
tar -cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only | |
tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only | |
sudo cp -v vmmon.tar vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/ | |
sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all |
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