How to fix VMware unable to install all modules vmmon vmnet

VMware needs to recompile the kernel modules after each kernel upgrade. We are all pretty familiar with this, since VMware requests module recompilation when launched after a kernel upgrade.

In the vast majority of the cases that will go smoothly without any hick-ups, but in rare occasions this might fail, especially after a major kernel upgrade.

The fix for this is to download the latest kernel modules for our VMware version and install them:

1. Check the version of your installed VMware Player.
   
   vmplayer --version
   
   
2. Get the version of your currently running kernel, in case there are multiple modules compiled for different kernel versions
   
   uname -r
   
   
3. Download the appropriate vmmon and vmnet modules.
   
   Visit: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tags
   
   Download the appropriate module file depending on your Vmware Player version (and optionally kernel version). In this case I am running VMware Player ver. 16.2.4 and a kernel ver. of 5.19, so I would download the p16.2.4-k5.19 file. Here “p” stands for player (if you have the VMware Workstation instead, then you would download the one starting with a “w”):
   

4. Extract the tarball file, create the tar module files and copy them over to the vmware’s source modules directory
   
   tar -xvf vmware-host-modules-w16.2.4-k5.19.tar.gz
cd vmware-host-modules-w16.2.4-k5.19
tar -cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
sudo cp -v vmmon.tar vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/
   
   
5. Install the modules
   
   sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

You should be able to launch VMware normally now.