Getting VMware player to work on Fedora 17/18 (Updated)

February 11, 2013

Update:

When i wrote this post i was using F17 and 3.7ish~ kernels. By the time i switched to F18 (and 3.8 kernels) another issue came up saying it wasn't possible to rebuild the VMCI module. Fortunately there is a way to fix it, not easy as the one i commented before but still. First you need to run our previous bug fix:

cp -rp /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/ 

Now basically you need to patch your player sources: 

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source

May want to backup the vmci.tar file just in case

tar -xf vmci.tar

cd vmci-only

Download the patch

patch -p1 < 'filenameujustdownloaded.diff'

cd ..

tar -cf vmci.tar vmci-only/

vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

rm -rf vmci-only/

After all that your Player should be ready to run, good luck :)

After update my Fedora 17 desktop to the newest kernel (by this time) i realized my VMWare player was broken.

If you been a VMPlayer user for a while you may noted that every time the kernel is updated our player re-compiles his own modules.

The issue with this particular version is a missing version.h on the sources files. Fortunately this file can be found on one of the internal folders and can be copied over to fix this issue: 

cp -rp /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/

Source

ps: remember that you probably have more than one kernel version after the update, if you don't want to use this fix just reboot your computer and pick the previous one.