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VMware Workstation 9 and Fedora 19

I still find numerous things quirky with VMware Workstation on Fedora. Issue 1:  Workstation does not run You will likely see something like the following in the modconfig output: $ cat /tmp/vmware-jradtke/vmware-modconfig-15048.log ... /lib/modules/3.10.4-300.fc19.x86_64/build/include/linux/version.h .... So -- do the following (works on 2013-08-09) cd /var/tmp curl -O http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/vmblock-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch curl -O http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source tar -xvf vmblock.tar tar -xvf vmnet.tar patch -p0 -i /var/tmp/vmblock-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch patch -p0 -i /var/tmp/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch tar -cf vmblock.tar vmblock-only tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only rm -r vmblock-only rm -r vmnet-only vmware-modconfig --console --install-all Issue 2:  You cannot apply the license via the GUI Run the following command: /usr/lib/v...