Bug 12107

Summary: VMware do not work with kernel 3.10
Product: Mageia Reporter: Gilles Allard <gallard>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: martin, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version: 3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Gilles Allard 2013-12-24 21:55:02 CET 
Description of problem:
I recently updated to kernel 3.10.24 (I was with 3.8.13.4). After update and reboot, VMware-Workstation9 ceased to work.
I updated to Workstation10 but I did not work either.
VMware cannot provide help since Mageia is not supported.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel 3.10.24

How reproducible:
always PANIC in Workstation10: "PANIC /build/mts/release/bora-1379776/bora/lib/unicode/unicodeCommon.c:330"

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start vmware
2.
3.


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Thierry Vignaud 2013-12-26 18:58:37 CET

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud, tmb

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2013-12-26 23:52:04 CET 
btw, kernel 3.10.25 is in testing, you could give a try.
Comment 2 Martin Ward 2014-01-08 12:16:35 CET 
I have the same problem with 3.10.24.

I rebooted to kernel 3.8.13-desktop-1.mga3, but I get the same PANIC error
message with VMware-Player-6.0.1-1379776

CC: (none) => martin

Comment 3 Gilles Allard 2014-01-19 21:57:14 CET 
OK, I fixed the problem. It's 2 steps process.

First, VMware Workstation9 do not compile with newer kernels.
VMware must be patched to fix the problem.
ref: http://mysticalzero.blogspot.fi/2013/07/vmblock-patch-for-linux-310-vmware.html

But even then, an error occur when starting VMware:
> PANIC /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/unicode/unicodeCommon.c:330
> Abandon

To fix that one, I used a trick from Oden Eriksson in Bug9739:
#mv /etc/vmware/icu/icudt44l.dat /etc/vmware/icu/icudt44l.dat.bak

Now it works (for Workstation9)
The problem exist also in other distros. VMware is too slow to adapt to recent kernel changes.
I have yet to find patches for Workstation10.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED