Another kernel upgrade, another vmware failure.  This gets old.  It used to be you patched using the vmware-any-to-any patches but these appear to have dried up.  Now we have a new patching mechanism: google till you find someone who fixed the problem.  Fortunately, someone fixed the problem for VMware Workstation (Krellen) and someone else (DutchTechies) made notes on how to make it work with VMware Server.  I'm grateful to both of them for making this a less painful process for me.

Yes, these patches worked for linux kernel 2.6.29 on fedora 11.  One wonders what will happen when we get to kernel 2.6.30.