On 30.07.2017 20:22, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 07/30/2017 09:41 AM, Walter H. wrote: >> On 30.07.2017 14:29, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> I personally have a Fedora machine that I keep updated and do some work >>> on all the time learning/testing. I just seamlessly upgraded it from >>> Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 using a couple of dnf commands .. awesome >>> experience actually. >> because of this feature to upgrade from one release to the next, I >> thought to test this on my old computer; >> fedora itself works fine, but this upgrade from 25 to 26 broke the >> vmware workstaion completely ... >> it doesn't work any more, any hints in net which could be found don't >> work ... >> and this was the goal to have a linux running with vmware workstation >> instead of my old windows ... >> >> but as it seems there is no way of achiving this ... >> > Looking at VMWare Workstation, it does not seem to run on Fedora at all. > It seems to run on : > > Ubuntu 16.04 > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 > CentOS 7.1 > Oracle Linux 7 > openSUSE 13.2 > SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 > > So, I'm not sure how it was running on Fedora 25 to get messed up by an > upgrade to Fedora 26. > with Fedora 25 everything worked fine, even the upgrade from VMware Wkst 12.5.6 to 12.5.7 with automatic recompilation of neccessary kernel modules without my intervention ... and the same when a kernel upgrade among other updates occured on Fedora 25, everything worked fine ... but the upgrade from F25 to F26 killed my VMware Workstation :-( even the updates which occured after this upgrade didn't help ...