This is Juk's linux kernel config file for vmware

Linux Kernel 4.2.x - 4.4.x .config

# All options are required unless noted as "Optional" or under a # Begin and # End block, which is also noted as "Optional" or "Hardware Specific"
# It is important that they are selected as built-in or the kernel might fail to correctly detect the partitions and/or filesystems.
# It is a good idea to run "make defconfig" first

Device Drivers  --->
   Generic Driver Options  --->
      ()  path to uevent helper
      [*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev
      [*] Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs

   # Optional, required for VMware virtual machines
   Misc devices  --->
      <*> VMware VMCI Driver (!! DANGER !! Virtual Machine Communication Interface - low-latency access to host memory bus)

   Network device support --->
      <*> VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver
      <*> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --->
          <*> AMD PCnet32 PCI support 
          <*> Realtek RTL-8139 C+ PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support
          [*]   Intel devices
            <M>     Intel(R) PRO/100+ support
            <M>     Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support
            <M>     Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support
      [*] Wireless LAN (ONLY if you disabled Wireless networking support above)

   # Optional, required for VMware virtual machines
   [*] Fusion MPT device support  --->
      <*>   Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for SPI (used by VMware Player and Workstation by default)

   SCSI device support  --->
      <*> SCSI device support
      <*> SCSI disk support
      <*> SCSI generic support
      [*] Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device (optional, required for some memory cards and other usb storage)

   # Optional, required for VMware virtual machines
      [*] SCSI low-level drivers  --->
         < >   BusLogic SCSI support (used by older VMware virtual solutions, can be optionally selected)
         <*>   VMware PVSCSI driver support (used by vSphere I think, but not by default, can be used by Player and Workstation too)

   # Use lspci -k and look for "SATA or ATA controller" and its driver. Then select apropriate
   # device down below.
   #
   # On my machine I have:
   #
   # 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
   #    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1670
   #    Kernel driver in use: ahci
   #


   # Begin, Hardware dependent (S)ATA controller configuration
   <*> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers  --->
      [*]   ATA ACPI Support
      <*>   AHCI SATA support
      <*>   Platform AHCI SATA support (both for the "ahci" driver)
      [*]   ATA SFF support (OPTIONAL for legacy IDE and PATA)
      [*]   ATA BMDMA support (both required for drivers below)
      <*>   Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support ("ata_piix" driver, also used in VMware virtual machines !!)
      <*>   Marvell SATA support ("sata_marvel" driver)
      <*>   NVIDIA SATA support ("sata_nvidia" driver)
      <*>   SiS 964/965/966/180 SATA support ("sata_sis" driver)
      <*>   VIA SATA support ("sata_via" driver)
      <*>   Generic ATA support ("ata_generic" driver, select it anyways if the machine has non-AHCI (S)ATA controller)

      # Additionally, select any driver that's apropriate for your hardware and not on this list. The list contains the
      # most commonly used desktop hardware nowadays.

   # End hardware dependent (S)ATA controller configuration


   Graphics support --->
      <*> Direct Rendering Manager

      [*] Labtop Hybrid Graphic - GPU switching support (!! ENABLE ONLY If you're using labtop with built-in graphic card !!)
      < > ATI Radeon (!! ENABLE If you're using ATI Radeon graphic card !!)
      <*> AMD GPU (!! ENABLE If you're using AMD CPU with GPU on CPU !!)
      <*> Nouveau (NVIDIA) cards (!! ENABLE If you're using NVIDIA graphic card !!)
      <*> Intel 8xx/9xx/G3x/G4x/HD Graphics (!! ENABLE If you're using Intel CPU !!)
      <*> DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU
         [*] Enable framebuffer console support under vmwgfx by default
      < > Display Link (OPTIONAL !! If you have multiple monitors !!)
      Backlight & LCD devices support --->
         <*> Apple Backlight Driver (OPTIONAL !! If you're using iMac, Macbook to control brightness of display !!)
      Frane buffer Devices --->
         <*> Support for frame buffer devices


      Console display driver support --->
         -*- Framebuffer Console support

   Sound card support --->
      <*> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture --->
         [*] PCI sound devices
            < > (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371/1373 (If you using creative !!)
            <*> Intel/SiS/nVdia/AMD/ALi AC97 Controller 


   # Optional, required for booting from USB devices
   # Begin USB configuration

   [*] USB support  --->
      <*>   Support for Host-side USB
      <*>     USB Monitor

      # One or more of the USB controller drivers, hardware dependent. You can look in the "lsmod"
      # output of your distro to figure out which one is loaded.

      # Begin hardware specific part

      <*>     xHCI HCD (USB 3.0) support ("xhci_hcd" driver)
      <*>     EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support ("ehci_hcd" driver)
      <*>     OHCI HCD (USB 1.1) support ("ohci_hcd" driver)
      <*>     UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support ("uhci_hcd" driver)

      # End hardware specific part

      <*>     USB Mass Storage support

   # End USB configuration

   File systems  --->
   # WARNING: It is important that you select the filesystem for your root and (optionally) /boot partition as "builtin",
   # while the others can also be selected as "module"

   <*> Second extended fs support (ext2)
      [*]   Ext2 extended attributes
      [*]     Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists
      [*]     Ext2 Security Labels
      [*]   Ext2 execute in place support

   <*> Ext3 journalling file system support (ext3)
      [*]   Default to 'data=ordered' in ext3
      [*]   Ext3 extended attributes
      [*]     Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists
      [*]     Ext3 Security Labels

   <*> The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem (ext4)
      [*]   Ext4 POSIX Access Control Lists
      [*]   Ext4 Security Labels

   <*> JFS filesystem support (jfs)
      [*]   JFS POSIX Access Control Lists
      [*]   JFS Security Labels

   <*> XFS filesystem support (xfs)
      [*]   XFS Quota support
      [*]   XFS POSIX ACL support
      [*]   XFS Realtime subvolume support

   <*> Btrfs filesystem support (btrfs)
      [*]   Btrfs POSIX Access Control Lists

   <*> Pseudo filesystems --->
      [*] Tmpfs virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)
      [*] Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists

   # Additionally, any other filesystem not listed here.

   # NOTE: Basic LFS install only contains filesystem check tools for ext{2,3,4} filesystems.
   # It is a good idea to install the tools specific to other filesystems before first boot
   # to avoid warnings and/or failures at boot.

Can you share the final.config file? I've tried to build it but failed.