VmWare 6.5.5

Well, I finally got round to it & took the plunge. It was actually a breeze.

Just followed the instructions in my previous post

Just made sure that I deleted the 'patched' folder from /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source and then ran patch-modules.sh - see below for the code.

Also found a bit more to help my mouse. In addition to this post I added an extra line below in italics to the .vmx file :

usb:1.present="FALSE"

usb:0.deviceType = "mouse"
usb:0.present = "FALSE"
mouse.vusb.enable = "FALSE"

All seems to work a treat.

Enjoy.

Save the following as patch-modules.sh in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source

cp -prn /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source-backup

mkdir original

cd original

find /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source -name "*.tar" -exec tar xf '{}' \;

cd ..

cp -pr original/ patched/

patch -p0 <>

cd patched

tar cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only

tar cf vmci.tar vmci-only

cp -p *.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source

vmware-modconfig --console --install-all