VMware workstation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 fails to load the vmmon module
Issue
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The error message (as logged by dmesg) is:
vmmon: disagrees about version of symbol smp_ops vmmon: Unknown symbol smp_ops -
This prevents starting vmware guest images.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
- VMware workstation 7.1.4
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