I would like to start by thanking Michal Kubeček for his many years of expert support of the VMware vmmon/vmnet modules for later kernel versions..

Since the Broadcom takeover of VMware, his patches have been forked multiple times, for 17.5.2 and now 17.6 support, with varying degrees of success..    I have tested most of these and – currently – the version I have found to be the most reliable is at https://github.com/64kramsystem/vmware-host-modules-fork , and these compile cleanly with kernel 6.10.x and compile successfully – with a few warnings –  on kernel 6.11..

For completeness, the forks I have found so far are:
https://github.com/64kramsystem/vmware-host-modules-fork
https://github.com/nan0desu/vmware-host-modules/tree/tmp/workstation-17.5.2-k6.9-sharishth  (not yet updated for 17.6 support..)
https://github.com/bytium/vm-host-modules
https://github.com/philipl/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-17.6.0 (only just reported – not yet tested..)

The forum for all these can still be found at https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/issues and, as can be seen, is becoming somewhat convoluted…..

I have been using VMware Workstation on Linux since the student/developer beta version in 1999, and still find it to be the only reliable solution for running Windows in a VM…..

Robert Gadsdon.    September 15th 2024.