vmplayer on ubuntu 13.10

I have recently upgrade ubuntu machine from 13.04 to 13.10. (As has been anticipated,) vmplayer would not start up stating that it requires to build.

Ok, let us build as we have been doing for a while upon upgrade of Kernel.

$ uname -r
3.11.0-13-generic
$ sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`/include/linux/version.h
$ sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

Mmmmm, something strange. Build would not succeed and abort in the middle.

Googling with this symptom and found similar report.

Ok, I need to patch some code change before building vmplayer module. Here is what I followed.

Download following files at first.

• procfs.patch
• vmblock.3.10.patch
• vmblock.3.11.patch

And then,

$ cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
$ sudo tar -xf vmnet.tar
$ sudo tar -xf vmblock.tar
$ cd vmnet-only
$ sudo patch -p1 < ~/Downloads/procfs.patch
$ cd ../vmblock-only
$ sudo patch -p1 < ~/Downloads/vmblock.3.10.patch
$ sudo patch -p1 < ~/Downloads/vmblock.3.11.patch
$ cd ..
$ sudo tar -cf vmblock.tar vmblock-only
$ tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
$ vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

Ok, now my vmplayer comes up without any problem. And original issue has been reported in vm communities.