This worked for me as well. In my case, I upgraded ubuntu to 22.04 and ran into this issue when I tried to launch vmware player. I was running version 16.2.1 of vmware player before the ubuntu upgrade. After the ubuntu upgrade, vmware player would launch, but complain about missing kernel modules. There is a button to click in the gui to recompile, but that failed. The fix described in this thread worked! I can at least launch vmware player without the show stopping error. Of course, once I launch vmware player, it prompts me to upgrade to the latest 16.2.5. A quick check of the release notes shows that the error of compiling kernel modules for ubuntu 22.04 has been fixed with version 16.2.4. yay! So maybe if you were to upgrade to vmware player 16.2.4 or later BEFORE upgrading to ubuntu 22.04 you wouldn't run into this issue? For the rest of us, we need to do this manual install of the kernel modules as documented here: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/blob/master/INSTALL
From the release notes of vmware player 16.2.4:
```
Workstation Player fails to launch on Ubuntu 22.04 host operating system
After you install Workstation Player on an Ubuntu 22.04 host operating system, the application fails to launch because of a compilation error in building the vmmon and vmnet kernel module.
This issue is now resolved.
```
