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After the LMDE upgrade, I was having a problem with VMware Workstation 9.0.3. The following service failed to startup even after an uninstall and reinstall of VMware:

Virtual Machine Communications Interface *vcmi"
VM Communication Interface

The problem seems to be with VMware in the new kernel after LMDE upgrade, "3.11.8-1-amd64"

When I revert back to the old kernel "3.10-2-amd64" *by selecting it in grub(, VMware is working properly.

I would like to continue to use LMDE, but also need to have a reliable platform for VMware Workstation. If I reinstall LMDE from scratch, will I get a different kernel (later kernels seem work fine)?

I know there is a patch for VMware to try to get it working, but it looks like the patch is a messy process.

Thanks for any input.

You probably need to reinstall VMWare-tools under the newer kernel, because it does something with integration into the kernel and the new kernel needs to get this also.

I had already tried that one, but did not make a difference.

Thanks

Normally, I would just patch Vmware, but after looking at the patches available, it was just cleaner and easier to buy the upgrade to version 10. It works with the new version.