I am forwarding a solution to my problem with vmware installing under Mandriva. I am thanking Petr for the fix.
Thanks Petr for your solution, I did I search and found a topic of yours for the error and found install
vmware-any-any-update91.tar.gz and be sure to run and install gcc compiler in Mandriva Control Center.
http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/
Download newest file which matches system you are using: currently it is simple, just grab latest vmware-any-any-update*.tar.gz file you can download.
After downloading unpack file into some directory, enter that directory and run "./runme.pl". After doing that run "vmware-config.pl", or, if you installed update on system which is supported by your product (though I do not understand why you installed product in this case) "vmware-config.pl -compile". Note that while original modules from VMware do not need C++ compiler, my updates need it, and won't build without - it is price I had to pay to get support for all these products from one source.
After that your kernel should not complain about problems with kernel modules anymore, and everything should run as on supported host.
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