UEFI[^1] Secure Boot[^2] (SB) is a verification mechanism for ensuring that code launched by a computer's UEFI firmware is trusted. Unsigned drivers are therefor not allowed to load.
2 kernels modules are compiled at installation time and must be loaded. If the host provides the proper kernel headers and gcc, these two modules will be built silently. The progress is logged into /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-PID.log [^3].
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