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  3. There appear to be two changes in the linux kernel between Ubuntu 11.10 (linux 3.0.0) and Ubuntiu 12.04 beta (linux 3.2.0) that affect VMWare.  I run workstation 8.0.2, but the changes will affect player and server as well.
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  5. 1: A structure that is referenced in VMware network code converts a pointer to a member of an embedded structure
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  7. 2: Network device operations structure drops a field that is initialised by VMware
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  13. I succeeded in getting VMware workstation 8.0.2 running with linux 3.2.0-16 on Ubuntu 12.04 after:
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  15. 1: Un-tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar to a directory you can write to (eg /tmp, /var/tmp or your desktop or home directory) - this creates a directory vmnet-only
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  17. 2: Apply the attached patch to the un-tarred source (run patch in the directory from step 1 - the patch file was created from the parent directory of vmnet-only)
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  19. 3: Save the original source tar file as /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar.orig
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  21. 4: create a new /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar from the patched source (with 'sudo tar cf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar vmnet-only' in the directory from step 1)
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  23. 5: Start the vmware player/workstation/....
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  29. Because these are changes to the linux kernel ABI, both VMWare Player and VMWare Server will be affected in addition to VMWare Workstation.  As player seems to be a component of workstation, but the issue is with the vmnet kernel module, my patch should be valid for the version of player that matches Workstation 8.0.2.
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  33. My patch makes assumptions about when the Linux ABI changes occurred. In one case, it assumed 3.0.0 as the boundary, and in the other, it assumes 3.2.0.  As I am not a kernel developer, but see the differences between 3.0.0 (Ubunu 11.10) and 3.2.0 (Ubuntu 12.04LTS beta), I am not sure whether the version checks for 3.0.0 or 3.2.0 are corrrect for the changes.  All that I can claim is that VMware workstation 8.0.2 successfully compiled and installed the vmnet kernel module on my system running 12.04LTS beta 64-bit, after applying the attached patch.
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  36.     vmnet.diffs (2.6 K)
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