Recently, VMWare Server and Workstation both seem to be broken on Debian Testing and Unstable. The vmware-config.pl script will rebuild your vmnet and vmmon kernel modules, but insmod will segfault when inserting the modules. This is related to an incompatible modutils version. A simple fix is available – open up vmware-config.pl in a text editor and change ‘insmod’ to ‘/sbin/insmod’. This is only required in two places, after which the build script will run just fine.
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