Hi folks,
For some time now there is an issue for all people running VMWARE Workstation (i think even player) with vmmon and vmnet kernel modules. When you start Workstation you will get message "Before you can run VMWare, several modules must be compiled and loaded into the running kernel". You will try to click on install, but in the end you will get an error message with path to error log file.
I'm running kernel 5.4 because this version is fixing few hardware issues I have with "modern hardware" on my laptop.
First of all you will need to check your VMWare Workstation version, that can be done from terminal:
vmware -v
My version is 15.5.0
Now we need to get modules and compile them to kernel:
git clone --single-branch --branch workstation-15.5.0 [email protected]:mkubecek/vmware-host-modules.git
cd vmware-host-modules
make
sudo make install
And you can run Workstation as usual ;)