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FBIandEuropol

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Registered: 2023-02-20

Posts: 2

Weird VNWare issue.

so this is super weird, I installed Arch Linux on my multipurpose server and one of the tasks for the server is to run a virtualization platform. I choose VMWare   and everything is great. it runs perfectly  and I even created 7 virtual machines on it.
   it continued to run perfectly for a month ans all of the sudden, when I was trying to launch another instance VMware and install another VM of I got a missing kernel module error. and it won't launch.
   but what's more weird  is when the error showed, my other 7 already working VMs are still running perfectly fine, suggesting that nothing is missing at all.
I experimented with VMWare by shutting down all running VMs and see if I can relaunch VMWare properly, it didn't launch and the VMS can not be started.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,296

Re: Weird VNWare issue.

All of this is completely normal and expected. Whenever your kernel gets an update on Arch, all modules of the old kernel are removed and you need to reboot into the new kernel, so you likely ran an update of the kernel on the host and will need to reboot. Note that VMWare being a external kernel module might have build issues against new major kernel versions you might have to find a patch/install an updated package/stay on an older kernel. Though from a quick check this should not currently be an issue.