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Title: VMware Tools fails after kernel update
Post by: Emily Martinez on Sep 12, 2024, 12:00 AM

Debian 12 guest, kernel updated to 6.1.0-13, now vmhgfs won't load. Tried everything - complete disaster!

Title: Re: VMware Tools fails after kernel update
Post by: Andrea on Sep 12, 2024, 09:30 AM

RTFM! This is why we use open-vm-tools with DKMS. Official Tools are deprecated for Linux!

Title: Re: VMware Tools fails after kernel update
Post by: Emily Martinez on Sep 12, 2024, 10:15 AM

Nina, I'M USING open-vm-tools! Don't assume I'm an idiot! DKMS fails with "invalid module format"!

Title: Re: VMware Tools fails after kernel update
Post by: geek on Sep 12, 2024, 11:02 AM

This is why I switched to Proxmox. VMware's Linux support has been going downhill for years.

Title: Re: VMware Tools fails after kernel update
Post by: Andrea on Sep 12, 2024, 11:05 AM

Alex, spare us your Proxmox evangelism. Igor: show EXACT error and your /var/log/vmware-install.log

Title: Re: VMware Tools fails after kernel update
Post by: Emily Martinez on Sep 12, 2024, 12:30 PM

[PASTE OF 200 LINES OF LOGS] Happy now? It's clearly the kernel crypto API change breaking everything!

Title: Re: VMware Tools fails after kernel update
Post by: Paul Davis on Sep 12, 2024, 01:15 PM

Why are you even running local VMs in 2024? This is why the cloud exists, people!

Title: Re: VMware Tools fails after kernel update
Post by: Emily Martinez on Sep 12, 2024, 01:20 PM

Johnny, not everyone wants to pay $500/month to run a damn test lab! Some of us have budgets!

Title: Re: VMware Tools fails after kernel update
Post by: David Rodriguez on Sep 12, 2024, 02:00 PM

Igor, try compiling against kernel headers 6.1.0-12 then modprobing. Worked for my RHEL cluster.

Title: Re: VMware Tools fails after kernel update
Post by: Emily Martinez on Sep 12, 2024, 03:30 PM

Dan, YOU GENIUS! That actually worked! Why isn't this documented ANYWHERE?!

Title: Re: VMware Tools fails after kernel update
Post by: Andrea on Sep 12, 2024, 04:00 PM

Because it's a HACK, Igor. The real solution is to wait for VMware to update their code.

Title: Re: VMware Tools fails after kernel update
Post by: Emily Martinez on Sep 12, 2024, 05:45 PM

Nina, in the real world we can't wait 6 months for VMware to fix basic functionality! Dan's solution works NOW.

Title: Re: VMware Tools fails after kernel update
Post by: geek on May 21, 2025, 05:57 PM

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