This did not work on Ubuntu Raring kernel 3.8.2-030802-generic.
Two obervation.
1) On the instructions all commands except cd must be run as su (sudo). This is merely a quibble - since they won't execute as an ordinary user (but youi may want to change it.)
2) More importantly the header (.h) files in /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.2-030802-generic/include/linux are greyed out in Dolphin and VMware (but NOT VirtualBox) can't ffind them even though the correct path is specified. This maddening since the same problem occurs in openSUSE 12.3 with kernel 3.7.9.
3) The command "sudo patch' never finishes (at least it was taking longer thank to compile a kernel) I think patch required an argument but I'm not sure of this. I cncelled it - would this make a difffference in the kernel command?)
4) Running the vmware-installer again it says nothing has changed so the command does nothing.
5) Granted I installed 3.8 from the ppa repo rather than using the latest Raring nightly build but I needed kernel 3.6 for the WS to work (and I knew this but tried the patch anyway). In order to install Raring I had to first tall lthe server version since the desktop version does not have a an alternate install anymore and I have software RAID.
If you can help me (particularly with item 2) I'd ssure appreciate it.