Oscar: I only have player 14. But maybe you can test this:
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As root in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source:
Extract vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar
wget -O ./vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-
modules/b50848c985f1a6c0a341187346d77f0119d0a835/vmmon-
only/linux/hostif.c (see https://communities.vmware.com/thread/571370)
Edit vmnet-only/bridge.c:
639c639
< atomic_inc(&clone->users);
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> atomic_inc((atomic_t*)&clone->users);
Run make in vmmon-only and vmnet-only
cp *.o /lib/modules/4.13.0-16-generic/misc
insmod /lib/modules/4.13.0-16-generic/misc/vmmon.o
insmod /lib/modules/4.13.0-16-generic/misc/vmnet.o
rm /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1/libz.so.1
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1
/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1/libz.so.1 (see
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/572259)
vmware-networks --start (see
https://forum.chakralinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=8579)
As user: /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware (to prevent it running vmware-
modconfig)
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Seen on https://askubuntu.com/questions/966585/ubuntu-17-10-upgrade-
broke-vmware-workstation-12-5
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