When VMware gets installed, it checks to make sure the proper kernel modules are installed when first run. It fails for me on Fedora24. I am not savvy when it comes to these things so I had to go digging. I found this resource: http://vcojot.blogspot.com/2015/11/vmware-worksation-12-on-fedora-core-23.html Which worked wonderfully. Basically I had to run this script that the author of the article made, which as I understand altered vmware files. Then I ran vmware-modconfig to go ahead and allow vmware to update kernel modules for me, which it did with no problem.