VMWare Workstation 10 on Linux Kernel 3.18

I finally decided to take a risk to upgrade to the latest update on my main desktop  and everything went OK, until i restarted my machine. VMWare modules didn't work as usual, but normally a rebuild should fix this issue. Unfortunately, not this time. There was an error thrown when i tried to recompile.

If you have VMWare Workstation 11.0, you won't get this problem, but if you are still running 10.x, here's what you can do:

• Make a backup of /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar

• Go to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source

• Extract vmnet.tar (tar xvf vmnet.tar)

• Change to vmnet-only directory (cd vmnet-only)

• Open netif.c using your editor (nano netif.c)

• Find this line 

dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof *netIf, deviceName, VNetNetIfSetup);

• Change it into :

dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof *netIf, deviceName, NET_NAME_USER, VNetNetIfSetup);

• Go up one directory (cd ..)

• Recreate vmnet.tar (tar cvf vmnet.tar vmnet-only/)

• Recompile VMWare (vmware-modconfig --console --install-all)

• Optionally, remove vmnet-only directory (rm -rf vmnet-only)

• It should be working again