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VMWare Server 2: Unable to build the vsock module

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If you encounter the following error after installing VMWare Server 2.0 RCx to Ubuntu:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only’
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb’
CC [M] /root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.o
In file included from /root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:92:
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/./include/compat_wait.h:64: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:260: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c: In [...]

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