VMWare player and Ubuntu 15.04: net driver does not compile anymore, how to fix?

Question

I use VMWare Player on Ubuntu and run a different number of virtual machines on it.

It worked fine until 14.10, when the kernel was upgraded I would be asked to recompile the modules etc; but it doesn't work with Ubuntu 15.04 anymore.

The problem is that it fails when trying to recompile the "virtual network adapter". How can I fix that?

Solution

Use this commands (need root access):

$ wget http://pastie.org/pastes/9934018/download -O /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch
$ cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
$ tar -xf vmnet.tar
$ patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch
$ tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
$ rm -r *-only
$ vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

for vmware-player 9 you also need to change:

• vmnet-only/netif.c line 152 from:

  dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof *netIf, deviceName, VNetNetIfSetup);
  

  to

  dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof *netIf, deviceName, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, VNetNetIfSetup);
  

• vmnet-only/filter.c line 207 from:

  VNetFilterHookFn(unsigned int hooknum, // IN:

  to:

  VNetFilterHookFn(const struct nf_hook_ops *ops, // IN:

• vmnet-only/filter.c line 255 from:

  transmit = (hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);

  to:

  transmit = (ops->hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);

Comments

[fge]

@EliahKagan that's not my use case at all; the use case is running VMWare player, and Ubuntu is the host, not the guest.

[Eliah Kagan]

Sorry. I've rolled back my edit. You may want to edit the question yourself.

[Maxim Brazhnikov]

The link pastie.org/pastes/9934018/download seems to be broken!

[Diogo Figueira]

it worked for my

[Anthon1e]

Could you please add to your answer, of what version of the VMWare software this patch works with? I need a patch for workstation 9, you see, of which the patch for 11 didn't work.

[SoothingMist]

The -o argument to wget is where to output the log according to the manpage, NOT where to output the downloaded file. So it's not going to work. Try curl [url] > [file] instead.

[FirmTech]

I tried the process above but got an error "Unable to install all modules. see log for details." below is my terminal screen after the process.

[Thomas Ward]

@user50849 it's -O which is why it's 'not working'