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Well, i was trying to get my new laptop up to date with the latest VMware Player the easy way, instead of having to resolve linux issues during the instalation.
To begin you should go on the VMware website and download a pretty “.bundle” package that should relieve you from all the hassle of installing stuff under nix* and there you have a nice GUI running and after a few seconds and some “next” buttons you get a pretty “..Installation successful”.

I couldn’t be more mistaken, when i was trying to run the player for my surprise guess what? i got this nice message:


# vmplayer
Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-19738.log
modinfo: could not find module vmmon
modinfo: could not find module vmnet
modinfo: could not find module vmblock
modinfo: could not find module vmci
modinfo: could not find module vsock
modinfo: could not find module vmmon
modinfo: could not find module vmnet
modinfo: could not find module vmblock
modinfo: could not find module vmci
modinfo: could not find module vsock

After goggling a few pages I got a link to a post in the fedora forum which contains the answer, you can find the post here.

The short and sweet answer is the following one, at least it was for me:

Remove the old binary modules: (you need to be root, to do this)
mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old

Run vmplayer by clicking the icon on the Gnome->System Tools menu.
(you should have this icon if you installed the .bundle package)

and surprise, surprise VMware Player up and running and looking good.