best approach to downgrade kernel?

nealh · 2016-08-12 00:38:26

I'm still pretty new to arch but I'm needing to downgrade from the 4.7 kernel pulled in today during a system update. The 4.7 kernel breaks the vmware workstation network modules so they don't compile, I posted the error in the kernel forum. I think the best thing for me until this is sorted is to downgrade, I've read the easiest is to use the old packages in the pacman cache and use pacman to reinstall with the -u flag.

Thanks!

2ManyDogs · 2016-08-12 00:53:13

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Do … g_packages

You might also consider installing the LTS kernel (linux-lts). It's at version 4.4.16 right now, and you can keep it around as a backup even after the mainline kernel starts working for you again.

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jasonwryan · 2016-08-12 01:05:22

Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to NC...

returnZero · 2016-08-12 06:42:27

Or you could just fix it and make vmware work with 4.7

http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1748

Edit:

That means:

Go to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
In the vmnet.tar there is a file called netif.c
In the file replace dev->trans_start = jiffies with netif_trans_update(dev)
Rebuilding the modules will work then

Last edited by returnZero (2016-08-12 06:49:50)

nealh · 2016-08-13 03:17:41

I found that to but it didn't work, in my post in the kernel forum I have the errors; I follow that article exactly and just couldn't get the modules to compile. I'm trying the lts kernel and it's stable but I'm noticing a large performance hit on the host and vm/s. The host and vm/s seem more lethargic than they did on the 4.6 kernel.

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best approach to downgrade kernel?

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