.:Slackel - Hellenic Linux Distribution::.

juliusse wrote: My laptop (the one I use for work) has 12GB RAM, so it's not a problem, I can run several VM and firefox

I envy you
You can also install vmware-tools, while running a distro in vmware machine.

djemos wrote: You can also install vmware-tools, while running a distro in vmware machine.

Yes, I saw that.

For the laptop with 12GB RAM, it's a good story.
Last year in February, a guy I know (not a friend, a pretentious a..hole, Mac addict, sexist, racist...) Was complaining because he had bought for Christmas sales a laptop for his daughter, and the laptop in question was slow, didn't worked well, and because it was a sales product, it can't be refunded by the shop. So he told me, that he can give it to me for 20€, because he would finally buy himself a new MacBook and give his old Mac to his daughter. (For him, a MacBook is the Graal).
So as a result, I have as a laptop for work an Asus nearly brand new, 17,5' screen, 12GB RAM, AMD A6 quad core CPU, Radeon R5 GPU. It runs on Slackel KDE, like a charm, fast and efficient. Of course, there are better machines, and would have preferred a Lenovo, but for 20€.... I will not complain.

quite a story.
20€ ?
An ASUS AMD Ryzen 5 laptop costs 765€

It's not a Ryzen, it's the precedent A6 generation, but it's a solid deal. If I remember well, the guy had bought it for 600 in sales. For a Mac user, this is few, as they got the habit to pay the price of a car for a laptop. But for me, 600€ is more than I would never put in a computer. I prefer recycling laptops of other people or buy a refurbished Lenovo. And if it is free, better. For example, my wife's laptop is a Sony Vaio found in the garbage bin of a marina in Belgium 5 years ago.

As i have seen after 3 kernel upgrades the latest VMware-Workstation-Full-15.5.6-16341506.x86_64.bundle do not need to run vmware.build-vmmon.sh script. After reboot vmware kernel modules vmmon.ko and vmnet.ko build in the background.

Thanks for the information.

Hi Djemos,
did you upgrade vmware to 16 version?

No. I will download it and report.

Hi, I've successfully upgraded it, I've used this https://gist.github.com/gopalindians/ec ... b26ed76507, the keys are valid.
No problems, everything is functional for the moment, I'm actually upgrading the kernel from 5.4.66 to 5.4.67. I will try after to run vmware to see if this

After reboot vmware kernel modules vmmon.ko and vmnet.ko build in the background.

is still OK and then report here.

Kernel upgrade done.
It appears that vmmon and vmnet are automatically updated and installed by vmware.
Everything is OK!