That's the short answer, now for the long answer. 8]
I had 4.5.2 up and running anyway before I downgraded to 4.5.1. I've had them running on a Debian sarge using debian's 2.6.8 kernel. The only real problem with the setup is it won't "find" the vmware modules it builds during configuration after I reboot. So I just re-run the config script every time I boot in order to rebuild and reload the modules. It's an annoyance, but I don't reboot very often anyway.
I had to downgrade to 4.5.1 has 4.5.2 has some serious problems with the Linux scsi support inside a guest OS. Certain scsi commands would crash vmware. If guest Linux images only use IDE emulated drives, you shouldn't have a problem. I needed the scsi support to work in my test setup so back to 4.5.1 I went.
Dave "LordBeatnik"