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VM Ware has released a version for Linux. Its a shell script installing the files in your / (root). While installing the application at one point it might output a black screen with all sorts of error messages. This is most likely caused by a conflict with the new kernel (version 3.5). It has been fixed but how do you fix your setup?? Well, following this method and combining a live setup (USB, SD Card, Live CD/DVD) we can address the issue. Follow the instructions below.

1. First make a Live setup of your distribution or one of similar kind. I used Linux Mint 14 with KDE on a SD Card.
2. Boot into the Live setup.
3. Log in as root [ type { sudo su } and type your root password ]
4. Locate your setups root drive (the one with the mount point / in your original setup) and mount it. It will be assigned a mount point most probably using a UUID, note that down. Youll find that in /media of your Live setup. What I did as find a unique part of the mount points name and used it with { grep }. So, my mount point was /media/d4324-32d43-4242 and I used { ls | grep "d4324" }. You can ignore it and use the name provided directly.
5. Now use

/media/$(ls /media/| grep "d4324" )

before every directory mentioned here. Or you can ignore the

/media/$(ls /media/| grep "d4324" )

part and instead use

/media/<your-mount-point>

directly.
6. Do these in the sequence

cd /media/$(ls /media/| grep "d4324" )/lib/modules/<your-kernel-version>/misc
# Note: If you have multiple kernel directories in the /lib/modules/ directory do the following for each one of them. If the files are not found in any kernel directory, ignore and go on with the commands.
mv vm* /tmp
cd /media/$(ls /media/| grep "d4324" )/proc/modules/
rm vmnet.o
rm vmmon.o
rm vmci.o
rm vmblock.o
rm vmppuser.o
rm /media/$(ls /media/| grep "d4324" )/etc/rc2.d/*vmware*
rm /media/$(ls /media/| grep "d4324" )/etc/rc3.d/*vmware*
rm /media/$(ls /media/| grep "d4324" )/etc/rc5.d/*vmware*
rm /media/$(ls /media/| grep "d4324" )/etc/rc6.d/*vmware*
rm -rf /media/$(ls /media/| grep "d4324" )/etc/vmware*
rm /media/$(ls /media/| grep "d4324" )/usr/bin/vmware-usbarbitrator
rm /media/$(ls /media/| grep "d4324" )/usr/bin/vmnet*
rm -r /media/$(ls /media/| grep "d4324" )/usr/lib/vmware*
rm -r /media/$(ls /media/| grep "d4324" )/usr/share/doc/vmware*

After that, try booting into your system. If all has gone well, you should be leaving a breath of relief.