nvidia driver 331.20 + linux kernel 3.11.6 (openSUSE 13.1) + vmware player problem

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hello,

I re-installed my PC the other week. I was running:

  • openSUSE 12.1
  • nvidia driver 319.23
    This was working fine, but getting a bit outdated obviously :) So I decided to install the latest version of openSUSE (13.1) with the latest nvidia driver (331.20). This combination is working fine, but when I try to start a virtual machine running in vmware player, vmware player simply stops. No crash information in the console, nothing. On the openSUSE forums, I found this: [url]https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/virtualization/492179-vmware-player-opensuse-13-1-a-3.html[/url].
    Reverting to 325.15 (with a patch applied to make it compile on Linux 3.11) indeed solves the problem.

Any insights on why this is not working with 331.20?

bug report log: [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6669000/nvidia-bug-report.log.gz[/url]

Many thanks in advance.

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Known problem: [url]331.20 on x86_64 breaks signal processing? - Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums
You can either stay with 325.15, or patch vmware-vmx. Note that patching breaks some very specific cases (like running wmvare inside of another VM), but allows to run vmware on physical host with no problems.

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We could reproduce reported issue with Opensuse 13.1 + vmware_workstation_10_0.

Reported issue( i.e driver preventing VMs from starting on some platforms), does not occur with our latest drivers. We will provide you the fixed driver in coming release.