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I am trying to install VMware with the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Player

I get an error that tells me to look into a log file, which contains:

Extracting the vmmon source from "/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar".

Successfully extracted the vmmon source.

Building module with command "/usr/bin/make -j4 -C /tmp/modconfig-GoVdrH/vmmon-only auto-build HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/4.15.0-22-generic/build/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc IS_GCC_3=no"

Failed to build vmmon.  Failed to execute the build command.

To figure out what was wrong exactly, I ran vmware-modconfig --console --install-all on the command line, and it revealed these errors:

./arch/x86/include/asm/processor-flags.h:39:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition

 #define CR3_PCID_MASK 0xFFFull



                      ^

/tmp/modconfig-3S1CBa/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:256:12: error: ‘struct timer_list’ has no member named ‘data’

    tscTimer.data     = 0;

    unsigned int lockedPages = global_page_state(NR_PAGETABLE) +

                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

                               global_numa_state

/tmp/modconfig-3S1CBa/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘init_module’:

/tmp/modconfig-3S1CBa/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:338:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_timer’; did you mean ‘init_timers’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

    init_timer(&tscTimer);

    ^~~~~~~~~~

    init_timers

/tmp/modconfig-3S1CBa/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIF_InitUptime’:

    init_timers

/tmp/modconfig-3S1CBa/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1754:31: error: assignment from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]

    uptimeState.timer.function = HostIFUptimeResyncMono;

 LinuxDriverSyncReadTSCs(uint64 *delta) // OUT: TSC max - TSC min

 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

scripts/Makefile.build:332: recipe for target '/tmp/modconfig-3S1CBa/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o' failed

make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-3S1CBa/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o] Error 1

Makefile:110: recipe for target 'vmmon.ko' failed

make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2

How to fix it, or make implicit-function-declaration and incompatible-pointer-types be not considered as errros?

Or any easier method to install the latest VMware on 18.04?

Note: Different error from VMWare Workstation Pro 12 on Ubuntu 16.04 cannot compile vmmon

Install the latest version 14.1.2. The bug has been fixed. See here. Here is the download link.

I found a solution and create a script file based on mkucebek's github sources .

You must create a file with this content and run it each time it's needed (Usually when you install a new kernel) :

#!/bin/bash

VMWARE_VERSION=workstation-12.5.9

TMP_FOLDER=/tmp/patch-vmware

rm -fdr $TMP_FOLDER

mkdir -p $TMP_FOLDER

cd $TMP_FOLDER

git clone https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules.git

cd $TMP_FOLDER/vmware-host-modules

git checkout $VMWARE_VERSION

git fetch

make

sudo make install

sudo rm /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1/libz.so.1

sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 

/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1/libz.so.1

sudo /etc/init.d/vmware restart

Then, you just have to launch VMware Workstation without building modules.