[CentOS] vmware player 12.5.7 with CentOS 7.4

Thu Sep 14 15:43:14 UTC 2017
Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com>

hi all - anyone find a way to get vmware player 12.5.7 working with 7.4?

Thanks - everything good with the upgrade except that.

Great job CentOS team!

Jerry


starting vmplayer I get the following:
Note: adwaita is installed.
canberra is installed
No idea what pk is ?

vmplayer

(vmware-modconfig:12595): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/main.rc:733: error: unexpected identifier
`direction', expected character `}'

(vmware-modconfig:12595): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/hacks.rc:28: error: invalid string
constant "normal_entry", expected valid string constant
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module": libpk-gtk-module.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module":
libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
Stopping vmware (via systemctl):                           [  OK  ]
Using kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only'
/usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64/build/include/..
SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
  MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64'
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/driver.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/hub.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/userif.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/bridge.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/procfs.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/smac.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/smac_compat.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vnetEvent.o
In file included from include/linux/pci.h:35:0,
                 from
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:27,
                 from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c:43:
include/linux/pci_ids.h:2251:0: warning: "PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE" redefined
[enabled by default]
 #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE  0x15ad
 ^
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/net.h:38:0,
                 from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:26,
                 from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c:42:
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vm_device_version.h:56:0: note: this is
the location of the previous definition
 #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE                    0x15AD
 ^
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c:43:0:
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c: In function ‘VNetNetifStartXmit’:
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:343:46: error: ‘struct
net_device’ has no member named ‘trans_start’
 #define compat_netif_trans_update(d) do { (d)->trans_start = jiffies; }
while (0)
                                              ^
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c:468:4: note: in expansion of macro
‘compat_netif_trans_update’
    compat_netif_trans_update(dev);
    ^
make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/net.h:38:0,
                 from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:26,
                 from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/bridge.c:52:
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vm_device_version.h:56:0: warning:
"PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE" redefined [enabled by default]
 #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE                    0x15AD
 ^
In file included from include/linux/pci.h:35:0,
                 from
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:27,
                 from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/bridge.c:51:
include/linux/pci_ids.h:2251:0: note: this is the location of the previous
definition
 #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE  0x15ad
 ^
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64'
make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only'
Starting vmware (via systemctl):  Job for vmware.service failed because the
control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status
vmware.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
                                                           [FAILED]