Comment 21 for bug 1715552

Oscar: I only have player 14. But maybe you can test this:

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As root in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source:

    Extract vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar

    wget -O ./vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/b50848c985f1a6c0a341187346d77f0119d0a835/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c (see https://communities.vmware.com/thread/571370)

    Edit vmnet-only/bridge.c:

    639c639
    < atomic_inc(&clone->users);
    ---
    > atomic_inc((atomic_t*)&clone->users);

    Run make in vmmon-only and vmnet-only

    cp *.o /lib/modules/4.13.0-16-generic/misc

    insmod /lib/modules/4.13.0-16-generic/misc/vmmon.o

    insmod /lib/modules/4.13.0-16-generic/misc/vmnet.o

    rm /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1/libz.so.1

    ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1/libz.so.1 (see https://communities.vmware.com/thread/572259)

    vmware-networks --start (see https://forum.chakralinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=8579)

As user: /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware (to prevent it running vmware-modconfig)

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Seen on https://askubuntu.com/questions/966585/ubuntu-17-10-upgrade-broke-vmware-workstation-12-5