Installing VMware 9 in Debian Jessie with 3.10 kernel

Today I reinstalled Linux and some software in my HP Pavillion laptop. I installed Debian Linux Testing (currently called Jessie) and upgraded the kernel to 3.10-2-amd64.

After that, I successfully installed VMware 9.0.2, but when I tried to open it for the first time...the compilation of kernel modules failed.

I did some googling and found that "The call create_proc_entry() has been dropped from 3.10 in favor of proc_create(). This requires patching of the vmblock and vmnet modules that use them."

So, to solved the compilation problem you just have to patch some files following the instructions listed in Archlinux Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware#3.10_kernels

Patches for older kernels are also provided in that site.

3.10 kernelsThe call create_proc_entry() has been dropped from 3.10 in favor of proc_create(). This requires patching of the vmblock and vmnet modules that use them.
The patches (including the optional fuse patch) can be found here and here:
$ cd /tmp
$ curl -O http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/vmblock-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch$ curl -O http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch$ cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
# tar -xvf vmblock.tar
# tar -xvf vmnet.tar
# patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmblock-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch
# patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch
# tar -cf vmblock.tar vmblock-only
# tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
# rm -r vmblock-only
# rm -r vmnet-only
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

(Remember: commands preceded by "#" should be executed as root)

If you have problems trying to enter your serial number through the UI, give the command line a try:

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx --new-sn XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXX-XXX-XXXXX