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This repository tracks patches needed to build VMware (Player and
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Workstation) host modules against recent kernels. As it focuses on recent
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kernels (older ones do not need patching), only vmmon and vmnet modules are
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currently handled as the rest has been upstreamed for some time.
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Main branch master handles only "infrastructure" files which do not belong
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to VMware module sources. Two other branches, "player" and "workstation"
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track upstream module sources distributed with Player and Workstation,
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respectively. Tags of the form "p${version}" (e.g. "p12.5.5") and
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"w${version}" correspond to clean unpacked sources of modules from
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a particular version of Player or Workstation.
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From these tags, branches "workstation-${version}" is forked. This branch
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tracks changes needed to build the modules against recent kernel versions.
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In general, one should always use current branch head for the build. For
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versions before 17.0, there are also branches "player-${version}" but as
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the module sources have been identical between Workstation and Player for
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quite long, there seems to be no need to duplicate the work. Therefore the
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"workstation-*" branches should be also used for Player >= 17.0 (and can be
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in fact used for older as well). If the situation changes in the future,
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Player related branches can be introduced again.
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In the past, tags in the form "w${ver}-k${ver}" and "p${ver}-k${kver}" were
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also provided to mark the snapshots deemed sufficient to build modules for
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Workstation/Player version $ver at the moment of kernel $kver release. This
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practice turned to be a bad idea; more often an issue affecting older
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kernel versions was discovered later than a fix for newer kernel did not
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work with older ones. Unfortunately, misinterpreting these tags often
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resulted in building modules from old branch snapshots and reporting issues
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that have been addressed long ago. Therefore, starting with kernel 6.0,
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these per kernel tags are no longer going to be provided.
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At the moment, changes are tested to build against all (vanilla) kernel
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releases starting with 4.9.
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This repository is provided "as is" with no guarantees. Use the contents on
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your own risk.
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