So I’m trying to play around with Fedora in a VM with VMWare Workstation Player (v17.5.1) but I’m running into a problem I don’t know how to solve. I use the Fedora 39 1.5 ISO file which is the most current version that’s available for download and after installing it in the VM everything works fine. I setup the install and I can use it, still working after rebooting it. But as soon as I do sudo dnf update
or update everything via the Software Center the screen of the VM goes black and I can’t use the VM anymore. No matter if I reboot it or not. When I power off the VM I can see the Fedora loading icon for a short period but that’s it.
This also happened with NixOS but not with Fedora Server. I guess it must have something to do with the DE as both distros were installed with Gnome but I don’t know how to solve it. I already tried reinstalling VMWare to no avail. I will try installing a distro with KDE to maybe rule out one cause.
Does anyone have any idea what’s going on here? I’m running VMWare on Windows 11.
moonpiedumplings ( @moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ) 2•3 months agoI remember this being brought up with an acquaintance, but basically there’s a bug where the newest fedora kernel isn’t compatible with VMWare.
So yeah. Either wait for a kernel patch, or wait for VMWare to fix their stuff. But they might not, other users have mentioned that they’ve gone downhill after being bought by Broadcom.
If you want 3d acceleration on virtualized Linux guests, other than vmware, you have two options:
- GPU passthrough
- Virtual gpu (virgl/virtualgl/egl-headless)
The latter is basically only going to work on a Linux host, virtualizing Linux guests (although it is possible on windows, with caveats).
The other downside is that no matter which option you pick, it’s all going to end up being a bit more tinkering (either a little — assign a vm a gpu, or a lot, install unsigned windows drivers), compared to VMWare’s “just works”/one click 3d acceleration setup.
lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) English2•4 months agoAny reason you need to use VMWare ? https://www.virtualbox.org/
badamsz ( @badamsz@whemic.xyz ) 7•4 months agoJust be careful if you download this from a corp internet address, which someone did on our guest network. Oracle sent us an an invoice for $5000 and pestered us about it for about a year of us ignoring them. We now block Oracle sites and I try to avoid Oracle products like the plague.
LinusWorks4Mo ( @LinusWorks4Mo@kbin.social ) 2•4 months agoVMware went to the shitter, try with virtualbox
What happened?
ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) 1•4 months agoBroadcom has acquired it
Avid Amoeba ( @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) 2•4 months agoThe free options haven’t turned to shit yet, but I’m absolutely expecting it to happen or to become non-free. I switched all my Windows VMs to KVM/virt-manager last week for this reason.
Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English1•3 months agoSignificantly faster too
Avid Amoeba ( @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) 1•3 months agoNot the graphics. 🥹
That said VMware Player has a defect that sometimes causes memory drfragger on Linux to go nuts slowing the VMs down a lot.
737 ( @737@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•3 months agoYou can pass through a GPU using KVM. Probably even a crypto mining card like the NVIDIA P106L for $30.
Avid Amoeba ( @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) 1•3 months agoGPU passthrough is awesome where needed and practical but it’s not an option for many setups and often it’s not needed. Basic graphics acceleration is useful to get the user interface of Windows to behave nicely. To have using MS Excel not feel like you haven’t installed your graphics driver. With Windows on KVM the missing bit is just the Windows drivers for virtio graphics. On Linux, the drivers are already there and Linux on KVM has basic graphics acceleration. That’s all I wish for. 🥹 AFAIK there’s an active PR for the Windows virtio graphics driver but it’s not done yet.