As usual, when Fedora upgrades kernel to a new major version VMWare stops working. In this particular case my Fedora was upgraded to Linux kernel version 4.7.2. The fix I found is the following one: # cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source# tar xf vmnet.tar# mv vmnet.tar vmnet.old.tar# sed -i -e 's/dev->trans_start = jiffies/netif_trans_update\(dev\)/g' vmnet-only/netif.c# tar cf vmnet.tar