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Hi all Below is a link to the pastebin that contains the tail of the error log produced by VMware Workstation 11. Questions related to this topic are for Specific versions previous versions of linux. Can anyone please help me troubleshoot this?

The issue is related to The last line where it is unable to start VMNET. I have tried disconnecting from my VPN and ;launching VMware with no success.

http://pastebin.com/p0zVCLVi

Thanks! PB

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Copy the snippet from here and paste it into a file in your home directory named vmnet313.patch.

Run the following commands

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar -xvf vmnet.tar
patch vmnet-only/filter.c < ~/vmnet313.patch
tar -uvf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
rm -r vmnet-only
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

What is done in the code block above is untar the source of vmnet, patch the problematic code and then return the vmnet module back to it's original state with the added patch.

Source

Unable to run VMware - Failed to build vmnet

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  • root@OBSIDIAN:/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source# patch vmnet-only/filter.c < /home/dj/vmnet313.patch patching file vmnet-only/filter.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 27. Hunk #2 FAILED at 203. Hunk #3 FAILED at 252. 3 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file vmnet-only/filter.c.rej @ step patch vmnet-only/filter.c < ~/vmnet313.patch – heypaleblue Jun 26 '15 at 18:29
  • see if this helps. – nixpower Jun 26 '15 at 18:33
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This Solution is for kernel 3.19 .

Here is a link to the solution of the above problem:-

3.19 kernels and up

Since 3.19 kernel the vmnet module will fail to build. Therefore we need to patch it .Commands are given below :-

curl http://pastie.org/pastes/9934018/download -o /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch

Extract the vmnet module sources:

if curl command is not found then run : sudo apt-get install curl

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar -xf vmnet.tar

Apply the patch: 

patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch

Recreate the archive: 

tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only

Remove leftover: 

rm -r *-only

Rebuild modules: 

vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

Now, VMware Workstation is running smoothly.

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