How to install VMware Player in Ubuntu 9.10

This post was written by admin on December 22, 2009
Posted Under: General

VMware Player is a free virtualization program from vmware,it’s the easiest way to run multiple operating systems at the same time on your PC. With its user-friendly interface, VMware Player makes it effortless for anyone to try out Windows 7 or run the latest Linux release.

First,install the pre-requisites by this in terminal:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

Download the binary package.
for vmware player 2.5.3 and ealier version,dowload .bundle package from this page:http://www.vmware.com/download/player/download.html
for vmware player 3.0:https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/pa/activate.php?p=player&k=f0ea6d5562706aae210f7c6014b6ced5&cmp=EMC-PlayerEvalActivation&li=license

Give the .bundle file executable privileges and start the installer:

chmod +x VMware-Player*.bundle
gksudo bash ./VMware-Player*.bundle

A installer window pops up,just click “Install” to start.

VMware_Player

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    Reader Comments

    it says no such file or directory

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    admin Reply:

    Check where you download the package.If you are using firefox,goto EDIT->PREFERENCES or TOOLS->OPTIONS and you can see where the downloaded file saved in main tab.By default it is ~/Download/,so first navigate to the folder in terminal:
    cd ~/Download
    then give it executable privilege and install:
    chmod +x VMware-Player*.bundle
    gksudo bash ./VMware-Player*.bundle

    Don’t just copy and paste privous command.change VMware-Player*.bundle to you downloaded package name.Type first few letters “WMware-Player” and press tab key

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    #1 
    Written By thaer on December 28th, 2009 @ 12:31 pm

    Hello. Hope u can help with this:
    - I just installed & configured Ub 9.10 on my desk top. Everything working normally.
    - Downloaded VMware-Player-2.5.3-185404.x86_64.bundle
    - chmod +x *bundle
    - sudo ./*bundle
    VM Player Installer window popped up
    - Clicked on the ‘Install’ button
    The progress bar started going; above the bar, it says that the installer is ‘Configuring’

    This is was more than 15 minutes ago and still going.
    Nothing else is running on the system (consuming CPU, mem, …)

    Is the ‘Configuring’ step supposed to take this long? Seems to me it might be hung.

    Question:
    1. Did i do something wrong?
    2. Is there a log some place that can help me to debug this?

    Thx
    DF

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    Hassan Reply:

    I’ve the same problem

    (The progress bar started going; above the bar, it says that the installer is ‘Configuring’ This is was more than 15 minutes ago and still going.),

    Please guide us what to do in this case?

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    #2 
    Written By DF on December 29th, 2009 @ 10:09 am

    I have a similar issue where install is not ging anywhere after configuring message

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    #3 
    Written By Shantharam on January 2nd, 2010 @ 5:31 pm

    This worked exactly as described, in a new install of Kubuntu 9.10. I was able to open and use a WinXP virtual machine image that I created in VMware for Windows on my work machine.

    Thanks for posting this guide.

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    #4 
    Written By TB on January 5th, 2010 @ 3:43 am

    i have the same as THAER… ‘Configuring’ is going on forever. Didn’t happen last time to did this with 9.04

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    #5 
    Written By vayira on January 5th, 2010 @ 1:52 pm

    DF: Please look at the following page. It says how to fix the problem we both are facing.

    http://my.opera.com/titzesan/blog/ubuntu-9-10-installing-vmware-player-2-5-3

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    #6 
    Written By Hassan on January 7th, 2010 @ 4:52 am

    The link above to “my.opera” is broken. But I found this post:

    http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3106715.0

    Which states that to fix the “Configuring” stage of the installation you will want to run the following command before running the installer:

    export VMWARE_SKIP_MODULES=true

    After running that command you can then run the installation command:

    gksudo bash ./VMware-Player*.bundle

    The reason that the installer stops at configuring is that it’s trying to compile modules and load them into your kernel. But, VMWare Player will do this when it starts up anyway so you can skip this step during installation (which the export variable command does).

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    #7 
    Written By DH on March 7th, 2010 @ 5:48 pm

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