VMware Tools fails after kernel update

[Emily Martinez]

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

[Andrea]

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

[Emily Martinez]

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

[geek]

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

[Andrea]

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

[Emily Martinez]

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

[Paul Davis]

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

[Emily Martinez]

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

[David Rodriguez]

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

[Emily Martinez]

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

[Andrea]

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

[Emily Martinez]

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

[geek]

Husam se gau