I'm still running Workstation 8.0.6 build-1035888 on Linux. Specifically Fedora 22.
The recent Fedora update of kernel version 4.0.8 up to 4.1.2 rendered my kernel modules out of date and I found that vmnet would no longer compile successfully.
The error was very similar to a previous one from an issue with kernel 3.13
/tmp/modconfig-LTmunl/vmnet-only/filter.c:206:1: error: conflicting types for ‘VNetFilterHookFn’
VNetFilterHookFn(unsigned int hooknum, // IN:
^
/tmp/modconfig-LTmunl/vmnet-only/filter.c:64:18: note: previous declaration of ‘VNetFilterHookFn’ was here
static nf_hookfn VNetFilterHookFn;
The following patch fixed it for me as the problem was a further change in the Linux netfilter.h file where the definition of nf_hookfn has changed.
--- vmnet-only/filter.c 2015-07-30 19:23:08.368819815 +0100
+++ vmnet-only/filter.c.new 2015-07-30 19:22:41.786537641 +0100
@@ -213,9 +213,14 @@
#else
struct sk_buff **pskb, // IN:
#endif
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(4, 1, 2)
const struct net_device *in, // IN:
const struct net_device *out, // IN:
int (*okfn)(struct sk_buff *)) // IN:
+#else
+ const struct nf_hook_state *state) // IN:
+#endif
+
{
#ifndef VMW_NFHOOK_USES_SKB
struct sk_buff *skb = *pskb;
To apply it, copy it into a file called /root/vmnet.patch and use the following (as root) -
cd /root
mkdir vmware_modules
cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar.orig
cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar vmware_modules
cd vmware_modules
tar xf vmnet.tar
patch -p 0 < /root/vmnet.patch
tar cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
cp vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
cd /root
rm -rf vmware_modules
Then rebuild your modules as usual.
