Automatic building and signing of VMware Workstation kernel modules on Ubuntu

This script should ensure that VMware modules will be rebuilt and signed for Secure boot when a kernel package is updated.

Instructions

Copy the script below to /etc/kernel/postinst.d/vmware and make it executable.

#!/bin/sh -e

export LANG=C

command -v vmware-modconfig >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0

version="$1"

# passing the kernel version is required
if [ -z "${version}" ]; then
	echo >&2 "W: initramfs-tools: ${DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE:-kernel package} did not pass a version number"
	exit 2
fi

# avoid running multiple times
if [ -n "$DEB_MAINT_PARAMS" ]; then
	eval set -- "$DEB_MAINT_PARAMS"
	if [ -z "$1" ] || [ "$1" != "configure" ]; then
		exit 0
	fi
fi

GCC="$(vmware-modconfig --console --get-gcc)"

echo "==== Building vmmon ===="
vmware-modconfig --console --build-mod -k "${version}" vmmon "$GCC"
[ -f /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.priv ] && kmodsign sha512 /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.priv /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.der "/lib/modules/${version}/misc/vmmon.ko"

echo "==== Building vmnet ===="
vmware-modconfig --console --build-mod -k "${version}" vmnet "$GCC"
[ -f /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.priv ] && kmodsign sha512 /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.priv /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.der "/lib/modules/${version}/misc/vmnet.ko"

echo "==== Running depmod ===="
if [[ -f "/boot/System.map-${version}" ]]; then
  depmod -a "${version}" -F "/boot/System.map-${version}"
else
  depmod -a "${version}"
fi

JakubVanek/VMware modules on Ubuntu.md

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