Quantcast
Channel: VMware Communities: Message List
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 168455

Re: networking on Ubuntu VM stopped functioning after latest VMWare tools upgrade

$
0
0

Here's what could help you. It worked for me. Before proceeding:

  • I run VMware Fusion on Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5.
  • I just upgraded from Fusion 7.1.0 to 8.0.1.
  • My Ubuntu is 14.04 LTS.

 

Here are the steps to resolve this problem:

  1. Stop VMware Fusion - make sure it is not running.
  2. sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/vmmon.kext
  3. Unload VMware kernel extensions:
    • sudo kextunload -b com.vmware.kext.vmx86
    • sudo kextunload -b com.vmware.kext.vmnet
    • sudo kextunload -b com.vmware.kext.vsockets
    • sudo kextunload -b com.vmware.kext.vmci
  4. Copy the new VMware kernel extension to where it needs to be:
    • sudo cp -R /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/kexts/vmmon.kext /System/Library/Extensions/
  5. Now you can start VMware Fusion, upgrade VMware Tools on the VMs, etc.


Hope this helps.


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 168455

Trending Articles



<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>