If you’re an Opensuser that uses VMware Player & you’ve done the update to the 3.4.11-2.16 kernel this is for you:
1)
# /etc/init.d/vmware stop
then
2)
# mv /lib/modules/3.4.11-2.16-desktop/weak-updates/updates/vmci.ko /tmp
then
3)
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
VMwarePlayer 5 will work Enjoy!
Sagemta wrote:
Chris Maaskant.
I just tried your way to see if it worked & regrettably it doesn’t. The way I wrote still does though there is one thing I need to add.
Before one does step 2 of my OP one should keep a copy of the vmci.ko file in their /home folder. The reason for this as long as Opensuse uses this kernel
3.4.11-2.16
If or/when VMware does an update of the player while still using the aforementioned kernel you’ll need to re-install the modules.
The “mv” command does not leave a copy so you’ll need one to place back in the /updates folder for future updates
To get a copy of the vmci.ko
# cp /lib/modules/3.4.11-2.16-desktop/weak-updates/updates/vmci.ko /home/yourusername
Then do the steps in my OP.
After the Player is all updated
# cp /home/yourusername/vmci.ko /lib/modules/3.4.11-2.16-desktop/weak-updates/updates/
One more item of note about step 2 the 1st time I did the module update I did it with
# cp /lib/modules/3.4.11-2.16-desktop/weak-updates/updates/vmci.ko /tmp
I got an error and it exited. So do use that"mv" command like I have it up there.