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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:

Vmmon module error window

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

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

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

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  • askubuntu.com/questions/810087/… does this help?
    – Rqomey
    Aug 10, 2016 at 8:00
  • I've referred to that, none of the methods have seemed to work. Aug 10, 2016 at 10:08
  • What is the error when you run: sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all if there is no error, are the two vmware services running?
    – Rqomey
    Aug 10, 2016 at 11:13
  • They are still failing to run after I have run the command. Aug 10, 2016 at 15:17
  • 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.
    – Rqomey
    Aug 11, 2016 at 10:23

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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

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  • I could build the module for vmware workstation 17 from this git repo. but I still cannot load vmmon or use vmware at all. Ubuntu 22.10
    – Mathieu J.
    Mar 20, 2023 at 1:16
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I have this same problem on 22.10 this is the end of

sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
 Starting VMware services:    
   Virtual machine monitor                                            failed
   Virtual machine communication interface                             done
   VM communication interface socket family                            done
   Virtual ethernet                                                   failed
   VMware Authentication Daemon                                        done
   Unable to start services

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