upgrading to vmware workstation 7.1 recompiling kernel modules

I've used vmware workstation since it was originally released and have it installed on linux and windows machines as far back as redhat 6.1 or 7 through ubuntu 10.04 and windows 7.
 I recently upgraded one of my ubuntu systems to 7.1 and discovered that the old trusty vmware-config.pl had been retired.  It wasn't completely obvious from the manual how to upgrade the host kernel modules so this is how you do it:

sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

and we have smooth sailing once again.