[xubuntu-users] 14.04 breaks VMware

[George F. Nemeyer]

VMware was running successfully with 13.10 and several virtual OS's were
installed and working.

Upon upgrade to 14.04, the kernel was replaced/updated.  As expected,
attempt to start VMware resulted in a VMWare Kernel Module Updater popup
appeared indicating some stuff had to be compiled for the new kernel.

Upon supplying root password, compiling began and seemed happy for the
first step.  However, when trying to compile the Virtual Network Device,
the process failed (red !).  It did (apparently) successfully run the
'depmod' step (green checkmark).

When it attempted to start VMware services, that failed with a popup
message pointing to /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-modconfig-3307.log for
details.

The last three messages in the log indicated:

  2014-04-23T00:34:16.205-05:00| vthread-3 | I120: Successfully extracted
  the vmnet source.

  2014-04-23T00:34:16.205-05:00| vthread-3 | I120: Building module with
  command "/user/bin/make -j2 -C /tmp/modconfig-itQtke/vmnet-only
  auto-build HEADER_DIR=/libmodules/3.13.0-24-generic/build/include
  CC=/usr/bin/gcc IS_GCC_3=no"

  2014-04-23T00:34:16.205-05:00| vthread-3 | W110: Failed to build vmnet.
  Failed to execute the build command.

Anyone have any clues what's broken?

=^_^=  Tigerwolf