VMware workstation 14 “not enough physical memory available to start this VM”

If you've just upgraded your linux distribution and you get the following error message when trying to start a VM using Vmware workstation 14 player
“not enough physical memory available to start this VM”

Do the following to patch your Vmware workstation player to work with the latest Linux Kernel


sudo -i
cd /tmp
cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar .
tar xf vmmon.tar
rm vmmon.tar
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/fadedd9c8a4dd23f74da2b448572df95666dfe12/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c
mv -f hostif.c vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c 
tar cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
rm -fr vmmon-only
mv -f vmmon.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar 
vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

your player should now work properly.