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Install this package:

emerge -a app-emulation/vmware-modules

If the package is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:

autounmask app-emulation/vmware-modules

Or alternatively:

emerge --autounmask-write -a app-emulation/vmware-modules

Package Information

Description:

Patches needed to build VMware (Player and Workstation) host modules against recent kernels. As it focuses on recent kernels (older ones do not need patching), only vmmon and vmnet modules are currently handled as the rest has been upstreamed for some time.

Homepage:

https://github.com/philipl/vm-host-modules

License:

GPL-2

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Description

• Patches needed to build VMware (Player and Workstation) host modules against recent kernels. As it focuses on recent kernels (older ones do not need patching), only vmmon and vmnet modules are currently handled as the rest has been upstreamed for some time.

Maintainers

• Vladimir Pavljuchenkov (spiderx@spiderx.dp.ua) - Type: person
• Proxy Maintainers (proxy-maint@gentoo.org) - Type: project

Upstream

• Remote IDs:
  • github: bytium/vmware-host-modules

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>spiderx@spiderx.dp.ua</email>
		<name>Vladimir Pavljuchenkov</name>
	</maintainer>
	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription lang="en">
	Patches needed to build VMware (Player and Workstation) host modules
	against recent kernels. As it focuses on recent kernels
	(older ones do not need patching), only vmmon and vmnet modules are
	currently handled as the rest has been upstreamed for some time.
	</longdescription>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="github">bytium/vmware-host-modules</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild vmware-modules-25.2

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