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failed to open device "/dev/vmci"

Error message once my colleague updated his box from the recent push http://http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/529820.

Is there a script to take out or roll it back to its previous version see error below:

Fedora-VmwareWorkstation.png

uname -a

mx14 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root/$vmware --version
VMware Workstation 9.0.3 build-1410761

2013-11-15T10:09:57.591-06:00| vmx| I120: DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : geometry=13054/255/63
2013-11-15T10:09:57.591-06:00| vmx| I120: SVGA: Device capabilities 0x01ff83e2
2013-11-15T10:09:57.592-06:00| vmx| I120: SVGA: Maximum display topology 3840x1920.
2013-11-15T10:09:57.592-06:00| vmx| I120: SVGA: Maximum display topology 3840x1920 with 2 displays.
2013-11-15T10:09:57.592-06:00| vmx| I120: SVGA: FIFO capabilities 0x0000077f
2013-11-15T10:09:57.592-06:00| svga| I120: VTHREAD start thread 9 "svga" pid 11685
2013-11-15T10:09:57.592-06:00| svga| I120: Async SVGA thread is alive
2013-11-15T10:09:57.592-06:00| vmx| I120: USB: Initializing 'UHCI' host controller
2013-11-15T10:09:57.620-06:00| vmx| I120: Ethernet0 MAC Address: 00:0c:29:71:df:58
2013-11-15T10:09:57.621-06:00| vmx| I120: VMCI: Failed to open handle to vmci.
2013-11-15T10:09:57.621-06:00| vmx| I120: Module DevicePowerOn power on failed.
2013-11-15T10:09:57.621-06:00| vmx| I120: VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 0
2013-11-15T10:09:57.621-06:00| vmx| I120: USB: Disconnecting device 0x10e0f0002
2013-11-15T10:09:57.621-06:00| vmx| I120: USB: Disconnecting device 0x4000000300000000
2013-11-15T10:09:57.621-06:00| svga| I120: Async SVGA thread is exiting
2013-11-15T10:09:57.622-06:00| mks| I120: MKS thread is exiting
2013-11-15T10:09:57.623-06:00| vmx| I120: MKS PowerOff
2013-11-15T10:09:57.623-06:00| vmx| I120: USBGL: Closed arbitrator connection
2013-11-15T10:09:57.623-06:00| vmx| I120: scsi0:0: numIOs = 1 numMergedIOs = 0 numSplitIOs = 0 ( 0.0%)
2013-11-15T10:09:57.623-06:00| vmx| I120: Closing disk scsi0:0
2013-11-15T10:09:58.244-06:00| vmx| I120: AIOLNX: asyncOps=0 syncOps=0 bufferedOps=0 RMWs=0
2013-11-15T10:09:58.244-06:00| vmx| I120: WORKER: asyncOps=4 maxActiveOps=2 maxPending=1 maxCompleted=1
2013-11-15T10:09:58.245-06:00| vmx| I120: Policy_SavePolicyFile: invalid arguments to function.
2013-11-15T10:09:58.245-06:00| vmx| I120: PolicyVMX_Exit: Could not write out policies: 15.
2013-11-15T10:09:58.246-06:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [11623 mainDispatch.c:3854]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=1, newAppState=1873, success=1 additionalError=0
2013-11-15T10:09:58.248-06:00| vmx| I120: Msg_Post: Error
2013-11-15T10:09:58.248-06:00| vmx| I120: [msg.vmciLinux.openAccessDenied] Failed to open device "/dev/vmci": No such file or directory
2013-11-15T10:09:58.248-06:00| vmx| I120+ Please make sure that the kernel module 'vmci' is loaded.
2013-11-15T10:09:58.248-06:00| vmx| I120: [msg.moduletable.powerOnFailed] Module DevicePowerOn power on failed.
2013-11-15T10:09:58.248-06:00| vmx| I120: [msg.vmx.poweron.failed] Failed to start the virtual machine.
2013-11-15T10:09:58.248-06:00| vmx| I120: ----------------------------------------
2013-11-15T10:09:58.248-06:00| vmx| I120: Locale_Errno2LocalString: "C" locale found. LC_ALL=(null), LANG=en_US.utf8
2013-11-15T10:09:58.248-06:00| vmx| I120: Locale_Errno2LocalString: locale(LC_ALL)=C locale(LC_MESSAGES)=C
2013-11-15T10:09:58.249-06:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [11623 mainDispatch.c:4235]: VMAutomationProcessMessage: Postpone the command. VM not running (opcode 151)
2013-11-15T10:10:30.929-06:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [11623 mainDispatch.c:3854]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=0, newAppState=1870, success=1 additionalError=0
2013-11-15T10:10:30.929-06:00| vmx| I120: Transitioned vmx/execState/val to poweredOff
2013-11-15T10:10:30.929-06:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [11623 mainDispatch.c:3854]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=0, newAppState=1870, success=0 additionalError=0
2013-11-15T10:10:30.929-06:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [11623 mainDispatch.c:3893]: Error VIX_E_FAIL in VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished(): Unknown error
2013-11-15T10:10:30.931-06:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [11623 mainDispatch.c:3854]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=0, newAppState=1870, success=1 additionalError=0
2013-11-15T10:10:30.931-06:00| vmx| I120: Transitioned vmx/execState/val to poweredOff
2013-11-15T10:10:30.931-06:00| vmx| I120: VMIOP: Exit
2013-11-15T10:10:30.932-06:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [11623 mainDispatch.c:859]: VMAutomation_LateShutdown()
2013-11-15T10:10:30.932-06:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [11623 mainDispatch.c:809]: VMAutomationCloseListenerSocket. Closing listener socket.
2013-11-15T10:10:30.933-06:00| vmx| I120: Flushing VMX VMDB connections
2013-11-15T10:10:30.933-06:00| vmx| I120: VmdbDbRemoveCnx: Removing Cnx from Db for '/db/connection/#1/'
2013-11-15T10:10:30.933-06:00| vmx| I120: VmdbCnxDisconnect: Disconnect: closed pipe for pub cnx '/db/connection/#1/' (0)
2013-11-15T10:10:30.935-06:00| vmx| I120: VMX exit (0).
2013-11-15T10:10:30.935-06:00| vmx| I120: AIOMGR-S : stat o=2 r=6 w=0 i=0 br=98304 bw=0
2013-11-15T10:10:30.935-06:00| vmx| I120: OBJLIB-LIB : ObjLib cleanup done.
2013-11-15T10:10:30.935-06:00| vmx| I120: FileTrack_Exit: done


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