Vmware workstation issue

Briefly describe your issue below:
I am getting following error when running vmware workstation

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What version of Parrot are you running? (include version (e.g. 4.6), edition(e.g. Home//KDE/OVA, etc.), and architecture (currently we only support amd64)
PRETTY_NAME=“Parrot GNU/Linux 4.7”
NAME=“Parrot GNU/Linux”
ID=parrot
ID_LIKE=debian
VERSION=“4.7”
VERSION_ID=“4.7”
HOME_URL=“https://www.parrotsec.org/
SUPPORT_URL=“https://community.parrotsec.org/
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://nest.parrotsec.org/

What method did you use to install Parrot? (Debian Standard / Debian GTK / parrot-experimental)
Debian Standard

Configured to multiboot with other systems? (yes / no)
Novmware-apploader-18507.log (63.4 KB)
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I am having this issue as well. The reason is we updated kernel to 5.1 to fix intel vulns and virtualbox and vmware doesn’t compatible with current kernel version. I afraid we can’t do anything until vmware is updated (so does virtualbox)

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I see,thanks for the update

This Will Fix Issues Related 15.1.0 VMWare Player with latest parrot OS 4.7

git clone -b workstation-15.1.0 https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules.git
cd vmware-host-modules
tar -cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
sudo cp -v vmmon.tar vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/
sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

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