Installing VMware Player 5.0.0 on Ubuntu 12.04

Just to give everyone a heads up that installing and running VMware Player 5 on Ubuntu 12.04 works perfectly and doesn’t require any additional steps to install apart from making the bundle executable (unlike previous versions which required manual patching, so a big thanks to VMware for finally fixing the issue )

chmod +x VMware-Player-5.0.0-812388.x86_64.bundle

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August 23rd, 2012 | Category: Blogging, Linux, Ubuntu, Virtualisation, VMware, VMware Player | 7 comments

Installing VMware Player 4.0.4 on Ubuntu 12.04

With my recent migration away from Windows to Ubuntu I decided to install VMware player to my machine, unfortunately this isn’t as straight forward as it is under Windows but it’s actually not too difficult if you follow these instructions.

First of all download VMware Player from the VMware site (registration is required but it’s [...]

June 19th, 2012 | Category: Blogging, Home Labs, Ubuntu, VMware Player | 21 comments