This is just a simple guide I made for myself, stitching several other guides to get a complete solution.
So the problem as far as I understand is that every time the Linux kernel gets updated in your installed distribution you need to rebuild these modules so VMware works.
Just as a reference but I believe this should work in any Linux distro, I am using Fedora 39 in a Thinkpad Z16 Gen 1.
Also an important note, this guide assumes you already installed VMware Workstation once and it was working until and update/upgrade of the Kernel happened.
Here is the guide hope you understand it.
VMware every time the kernel changes you have to do this:
# Get Root previleges
sudo su
# Download modules package. *.*.* VMware version, can check with vmplayer -v
wget https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/archive/workstation-*.*.*.tar.gz
# Extract package.
tar -xzf workstation-*.*.*.tar.gz
#Enter the directory compile and install
cd vmware-host-modules-workstation-1*.*.*/
make
make install
# RESTART! very important, restart linux
# And you are done
# More info https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/master
# Hit master you will see all the versions, in the your version hit readme.
