Error building VMware vmmon and vmnet modules on Thumbleweed

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Hello, I have problem during building VMware Player modules on Thumbleweed. VMware player after instalation is trying to build 2 modules: vmmon and vmnet but during compiling modules I’m getting these errors:

Is there anyone who knows how to solve this problem?

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VMware Workstation with Kernel 6.6 - #11 should be helpful for this.

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If you are using Tumbleweed with third-party kernel modules you better learn how to interpret the errors that you will be having rather frequently after kernel updates.

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The below worked for me… but to be clear is a combination of notes so has not been tested in this form and I may have left something out.
I can’t spare any more time now, I hope someone else can test on a box known to have this issue, and really hope this saves someone some time as this ate 3 hours of my life.

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# Uninstall
sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation
# Cleanup
cd /lib/modules/6.9.1-1-default/misc
mv vm* /tmp
# CAREFUL HERE...
sudo rm -rf /etc/vmware* /usr/lib/vmware* /usr/bin/vmware* /usr/bin/vmnet* /usr/share/applications/vmware* /usr/share/doc/vmware*
# Remove kernel mods
sudo rmmod vmnet.o
sudo rmmod vmmon.o
sudo rmmod vmnet.o
sudo rmmod vmmon.o
sudo rmmod vmci.o
sudo rmmod vmblock.o
sudo rmmod vmppuser.o

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# Install
sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper dup
# Install kernel-default-devel package for my kernel version
sudo zypper install --oldpackage kernel-default-devel=$(uname -r | sed "s/-default//")
# Install other dependencies
sudo zypper install make gcc gcc13 cross-bpf-gcc13 kernel-source kernel-devel kernel-syms open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop open-vm-tools-containerinfo dkms git-core bc
# They changed the location of the file 'vmlinux.xz', create a symlink
ln -sf /usr/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/vmlinux.xz /boot/

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# REBOOT
sudo shutdown -r now
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# Install patched VMWare host modules from nan0desu
# (vmmon and vmnet loaded as dynamic modules during runtime)
mkdir ~/vmware-kernel-mods
cd ~/vmware-kernel-mods
git clone https://github.com/nan0desu/vmware-host-modules.git
cd vmware-host-modules/
git checkout tmp/workstation-17.5.2-k6.9.1
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe vmmon
sudo modprobe vmnet

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# REBOOT
sudo shutdown -r now
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# Verify those 2 kernel modules are loaded after REBOOT (else, repeat the previous 2 modprobe commands)
sudo lsmod | egrep '(vmmon|vmnet)'

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# Run VMWare bundle installer
mkdir ~/vmware-works
cd ~/vmware-works
cp <YOUR-PATH>/VMware-Workstation-Full-17.5.2-XXXXXXXX.x86_64.bundle .
sudo chmod +x ./VMware-Workstation-Full-17.5.2-XXXXXXXX.x86_64.bundle
sudo ./VMware-Workstation-Full-17.5.2-XXXXXXXX.x86_64.bundle
# During install when prompted with;
#   System service scripts directory (commonly /etc/init.d). [/etc/init.d]:
# Enter:
/etc/systemd/system
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