VMWARE workstation breaks after Kernel upgrade

[John Austin]

Hi
https://community.broadcom.com/vmware-cloud-foundation/discussion/ubuntu-and-vmware-workstation-pro-after-installation-of-new-kernel
may help but is quite painful.


On Fri, 2025-10-03 at 00:51 +0000, Thomas Patko via Broadcom wrote:
> I am curious if anyone else has had the situation that they had a working installation of VMWARE
> workstation 17.6.4 for Linux that broke after performing normal maintenance updates on Ubuntu 24.04
> LTS which included updating to Kernel Linux 6.16.3.  This is exactly what happened for me and I am
> unable to successfully run the VMware kernel module updater after this happened.  Before this update
> both Windows 10 and Windows 11 guests were working normally in all respects.  Some screenshots and OS
> information are below.  Is there a resolution for this issue possible either with the current 17.6.4
> build or else with an upcoming 17.6.5 version?
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> I look forward to any assistance which may be possible.
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> # System Details Report
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> ## Report details
> - **Date generated:**                              2025-10-02 15:41:21
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> ## Hardware Information:
> - **Hardware Model:**                              System76 Thelio
> - **Memory:**                                      64.0 GiB
> - **Processor:**                                   AMD Ryzen™ 9 9950X × 32
> - **Graphics:**                                    NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 4060 Ti
> - **Graphics 1:**                                  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
> - **Disk Capacity:**                               8.0 TB
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> ## Software Information:
> - **Firmware Version:**                            3024
> - **OS Name:**                                     Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
> - **OS Build:**                                    (null)
> - **OS Type:**                                     64-bit
> - **GNOME Version:**                               46
> - **Windowing System:**                            X11
> - **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 6.16.3-76061603-generic
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[John Austin]

Please ignore my noise!

"Technogeezer" is the way to go.



On Fri, 2025-10-03 at 00:51 +0000, Thomas Patko via Broadcom wrote:
> I am curious if anyone else has had the situation that they had a working installation of VMWARE
> workstation 17.6.4 for Linux that broke after performing normal maintenance updates on Ubuntu 24.04
> LTS which included updating to Kernel Linux 6.16.3.  This is exactly what happened for me and I am
> unable to successfully run the VMware kernel module updater after this happened.  Before this update
> both Windows 10 and Windows 11 guests were working normally in all respects.  Some screenshots and OS
> information are below.  Is there a resolution for this issue possible either with the current 17.6.4
> build or else with an upcoming 17.6.5 version?
>
>
> I look forward to any assistance which may be possible.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> # System Details Report
> ---
>
>
> ## Report details
> - **Date generated:**                              2025-10-02 15:41:21
>
>
> ## Hardware Information:
> - **Hardware Model:**                              System76 Thelio
> - **Memory:**                                      64.0 GiB
> - **Processor:**                                   AMD Ryzen™ 9 9950X × 32
> - **Graphics:**                                    NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 4060 Ti
> - **Graphics 1:**                                  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
> - **Disk Capacity:**                               8.0 TB
>
>
> ## Software Information:
> - **Firmware Version:**                            3024
> - **OS Name:**                                     Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
> - **OS Build:**                                    (null)
> - **OS Type:**                                     64-bit
> - **GNOME Version:**                               46
> - **Windowing System:**                            X11
> - **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 6.16.3-76061603-generic
>
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>
>
>
> You are subscribed to "VMware Workstation" as [e-mail]. To change your subscriptions, go to
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> .
>
> Copyright © 2005-2023 Broadcom. All Rights Reserved. The term "Broadcom" refers to Broadcom Inc.
> and/or its subsidiaries.
>
> Hosted by Higher Logic, LLC on the behalf of Broadcom
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> https://www.broadcom.com/company/citizenship/governance-and-ethics#supply |
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[Hyphaed]

for kernel 6.17 the patches on this repository will build the modules: https://github.com/Hyphaed/vmware-vmmon-vmnet-linux-6.17.x

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