I upgraded to Workstation 12.1.0 and vmware doesn't start. I patched the drivers and modinfo returns 0 upon all driver installs. The last line of vmware-ui.log is:
2015-12-15T08:20:59.156-08:00| vmui| W115: Unhandled cui::Error exception: class 'N3cui5ErrorE', details 'Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/vmware/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/svg_loader.so: librsvg-2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'
There are two copies of this library; one for the installer and one for the main system, and they are different sizes?:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204824 Dec 14 17:10 /usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.1.0/lib/lib/librsvg-2.so.2/librsvg-2.so.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 863436 Dec 14 17:10 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/librsvg-2.so.2/librsvg-2.so.2
This does not appear to be related to the other problem people are having with gcc5 and name-mangling.
$ uname -r 4.3.2-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
$ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)