Porteux - vmware: kernel headers for version 6.18.2-porteux were not found. #95 -4

 

porteux 6.18.7

uname -a
Linux porteux 6.18.7-porteux #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Jan 27 19:40:05 CST 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

ls -l /lib/modules/6.18.7-porteux/misc
total 368
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239872 Jan 29 23:05 vmmon.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 133920 Jan 29 23:05 vmnet.ko

sudo modinfo vmmon
filename: /lib/modules/6.18.7-porteux/misc/vmmon.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
name: vmmon
retpoline: Y
vermagic: 6.18.7-porteux SMP preempt mod_unload

vmware --version
VMware Workstation 25.0.0 24995812

https://github.com/porteux/porteux/issues/95#issuecomment-3827180730

Porteux - vmware: kernel headers for version 6.18.2-porteux were not found. #95 -3

 

Thanks.

It works.
06-crippled_sources-6.18.2-64bit.xzm
extract from 64bit-ALL-kernel6.18.2.tar

https://www.mediafire.com/file/90x3v5o1wau5sol/64bit-ALL-kernel6.18.2.tar

https://github.com/porteux/porteux/issues/95#issuecomment-3782188998

Porteux - vmware: kernel headers for version 6.18.2-porteux were not found. #95

Have installed 06-crippled-sources-6.18.2-20251226.xzm,

but VMware Kernel Module Updater failed ?

guest@porteux:~$ vmware -v
VMware Workstation 25.0.0 24995812

https://github.com/porteux/porteux/issues/95

Porteux - vmware: kernel headers for version 6.18.2-porteux were not found. #95 -2

 

guest@porteux:~$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/15.2.0/specs
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/15.2.0/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-slackware-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/man --infodir=/usr/info --enable-shared --enable-bootstrap --enable-languages=ada,c,c++,d,fortran,go,lto,m2,objc,obj-c++,rust,cobol --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-libstdcxx-dual-abi --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libssp --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-plugin --enable-lto --disable-install-libiberty --disable-werror --with-gnu-ld --with-isl --verbose --with-arch-directory=amd64 --disable-gtktest --enable-clocale=gnu --with-arch=x86-64 --enable-multilib --target=x86_64-slackware-linux --build=x86_64-slackware-linux --host=x86_64-slackware-linux
Thread model: posix
Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd

https://github.com/porteux/porteux/issues/95#issuecomment-3779749771