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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/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx --new-sn XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX


It is disappointing that we still have to mess around with this stuff :-(

kernel: 3.10.4-300.fc19.x86_64
VMware WS 9.0.2
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