Fedora 24, kernel 4.7 and VMWare Workstation 12.1.

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 vmnet-only
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

And that was it!

Note that this works if you upgraded from linux kernel version 4.6. In case you've upgraded from some earlier version, you'll have to patch it first for those version. Here is how to patch VMWare Workstation to work with Linux kernel version 4.6.

Quick note about Fedora 24 and VMWare Workstation 12.1

I just updated Fedora 24 from update-testing repository and that pulled Linux kernel 4.6. Well, as usual, VMWare Workstation needed some patching in order to work. Luckily, I quickly found a fix on VMWare forums. Note that at the end of the thread there is a script you can use to automatically patch necessary files. But, be careful, I didn't try it!

Anyway, after patching, run:

vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

and that should be it!

Just as a sidenote, turns out that the same info I found on Arch Wiki page devoted to VMWare. And that page is full of information so you should bookmark it and whenever you have a problem with VMWare check there.

Edit 20160707: The script mentioned above had some errors in it. Here is the fixed version.