Fedora 20 with kernel 3.13 fail to install vmplayer module

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Just upgrade my fedora to Fedora 20 and found that vmware player not able to install the module.

It end with this error.
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/tmp/modconfig-rHN4Kj/vmnet-only/filter.c:206:1: error: conflicting types for ‘VNetFilterHookFn’
 VNetFilterHookFn(unsigned int hooknum,                 // IN:
 ^
/tmp/modconfig-rHN4Kj/vmnet-only/filter.c:64:18: note: previous declaration of ‘VNetFilterHookFn’ was here
 static nf_hookfn VNetFilterHookFn;
                  ^
/tmp/modconfig-rHN4Kj/vmnet-only/filter.c:64:18: warning: ‘VNetFilterHookFn’ used but never defined [enabled by default]
/tmp/modconfig-rHN4Kj/vmnet-only/filter.c:206:1: warning: ‘VNetFilterHookFn’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
 VNetFilterHookFn(unsigned int hooknum,                 // IN:
 ^
make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-rHN4Kj/vmnet-only/filter.o] Error 1
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After google, some say this error cause by the Nefilter selected with the kernel compilation options. And I believe most of the distro kernel will have this option selected.

Here is the solution, I didn't manage to patch it using command patch, it keep saying malformed patch, so at the end I edit filter.c manually. But if you manage to figure out to format this patch correctly, please let me know.

--- vmnet-only/filter.c 2013-10-18 23:11:55.000000000 +0400
+++ vmnet-only/filter.c 2013-12-03 04:16:31.751352170 +0400
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include "compat_module.h"
 #include
 #include
+#include
 #if COMPAT_LINUX_VERSION_CHECK_LT(3, 2, 0)
 #   include
 #else
@@ -203,7 +204,11 @@
 #endif

 static unsigned int
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 13, 0)
 VNetFilterHookFn(unsigned int hooknum,                 // IN:
+#else
+VNetFilterHookFn(const struct nf_hook_ops *ops,        // IN:
+#endif
 #ifdef VMW_NFHOOK_USES_SKB
                  struct sk_buff *skb,                  // IN:
 #else
@@ -252,7 +257,14 @@

    /* When the host transmits, hooknum is VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING. */
    /* When the host receives, hooknum is VMW_NF_INET_LOCAL_IN. */
-   transmit = (hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);
+
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 13, 0)
+    transmit = (hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);
+#else
+    transmit = (ops->hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);
+#endif
+
    packetHeader = compat_skb_network_header(skb);
    ip = (struct iphdr*)packetHeader;

Here is the steps

# tar xf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar
# cd vmnet-only
# patch -p1 < patch.patch (If you manage to format the patch correctly)
# vim filter.c (Edit the file manually and modify accordingly)
# cd ..
# tar -cvf vmnet.tar vmnet-only/
# cp vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/

then issue this command to compile and install the vmware player module

# sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

This should be able to solve the issue and your vmware player will be launch successfully.



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