VMWare Server Doesn't Start After Upgrade

I have a Xubuntu 9.04 machine that is hosting some VMs running on VMWare Server. I recently upgraded a bunch of packages on the host machine and then I noticed that the VMWare Server was not starting automatically anymore. I tried running it manually and I got the error message: vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for this system.

What happened is that one of the upgraded packages was the Linux Kernel and a new Kernel version will break VMWare because it originally compiled for the previous Kernel version that was on the machine. To fix this I had to run the /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script to reconfigure and recompile several components. After running the script, VMWare server started up again as normal.

Let me know if you had this problem before.