There's a VMWare Player upgrade available, to 5.0.0 -- DO NOT install it on siduction!
On a (expendable) 64-bit system, with a Win XP VM, the upgrade appeared to install correctly, and the kernel modules appeared to build without error. However, upon attempting to play the VM, it crashes silently, leaving only cryptic messages in /var/log/syslog. Actually, by starting it in the terminal, I was able to get this much error output:
don@delle6500:~$ vmplayer
Logging to /tmp/vmware-don/vmware-modconfig-15285.log
filename: /lib/modules/3.5-2.towo-siduction-amd64/misc/vmmon.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: 64C0550742A16037B6524AD
depends:
vermagic: 3.5-2.towo-siduction-amd64 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0: missing action removable-device-0
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1: missing action removable-device-1
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-2: missing action removable-device-2
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-3: missing action removable-device-3
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0storage1: missing action removable-device-0storage1
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0-choose-image: missing action removable-device-0-choose-image
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-0-edit: missing action removable-device-0-edit
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-connect: missing action removable-device-1-connect
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-nic-bridged: missing action removable-device-1-nic-bridged
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-nic-nat: missing action removable-device-1-nic-nat
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-nic-host-only: missing action removable-device-1-nic-host-only
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-1-edit: missing action removable-device-1-edit
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-2connect: missing action removable-device-2connect
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-2-edit: missing action removable-device-2-edit
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-3connect: missing action removable-device-3connect
(vmplayer:15280): Gtk-WARNING **: removable-device-3-edit: missing action removable-device-3-edit
However, googling one of these errors indicates they are informational warnings, and probably not relevant to the crash.
I see no online guidance to deal with it at this time, so we should wait to install it until we know how to patch it.