How do I install the vmmon kernel module for VMware?

Question

I've recently installed VMware Workstation 12.1.1 build-3770994 and whenever I attempt to open a virtual machine, I recieve the following error:

When I navigate to /dev/ , there is no vmmon to be found

When I run the command: sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all, I get this error:

I've attempted to reinstall VMware several times, but to no avail did the vmmon kernel module load. Is there a soulution to this?

Solution

Below solution worked for me on Fedora32

I have VMware-Workstation-Full-15.5.6-16341506.x86_64.bundle and used the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules cd vmware-host-modules git checkout workstation-15.5.6 sudo make ; sudo make install

Comments

[Admin]

askubuntu.com/questions/810087/… does this help?

[Admin]

I've referred to that, none of the methods have seemed to work.

[Admin]

What is the error when you run: sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all if there is no error, are the two vmware services running?

[Admin]

They are still failing to run after I have run the command.

[Admin]

So two things, firstly you are running the 4.4 kernel, so you shouldn't make the changes here: askubuntu.com/questions/810087/… (if you haven't taken backups of the tar files uninstall and reinstall). After you do this run sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all again, but this time copy the actual make errors (you will have to scroll back up) . the errors will say "warning" probably, they will be a little stack trace before it.

[Admin]

could it be the same issue than this? stackoverflow.com/questions/37328791/…