O VMware Player pode ser executado em qualquer distribuição do Linux.
Há pacotes relacionados à distribuição, mas também há "pacotes genéricos", geralmente incluindo um arquivo .sh , que depois de receber permissão executável, os sinalizadores podem ser executados fazendo ./packagename.sh com privilégios de root.
Em distros derivadas do Ubuntu, no entanto, existe outro método, que envolve um pouco de operações de linha de comando.
Os passos necessários são os seguintes:
- Install required packages build-essential and linux-headers:
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)- Download the latest VMware player e.g. VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.i386.bundle (download the bundle version, not the rpm one) and run it as root using gksudo. You'll get a graphical installer that installs VMware player for you.
gksudo bash ./Downloads/VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.i386.bundle
- Note: this assumes the location of your Downloads folder is home/Downloads. If nothing appears, you may need to make the file executable. You can do so with this command:
chmod +x ./Downloads/VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.i386.bundle(again, with the assumption of your Downloads folder location). After completion, VMware player is installed and should show up in the menu under Applications → System Tools → VMware Player. As well, you may notice that when trying to create a new virtual machine, vmware will complain on the terminal output that:
VMware Player is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system administrator must find and run "vmware-config.pl". For more information, please see the VMware Player documentation.
vmware-config.pl is not present anymore in the latest vmware-player versions (seems to have been superseded by vmware-modconfig). If you have this problem you may instead need to check if you have a /etc/vmware/not_configured file and, if so, delete it.
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