Thursday, August 26, 2010

Installing VMware Player 3.1.1 on Ubuntu 10.04...


Screenshots...



1) Install build-essential and linux-headers (for my case I skip this step because I had these two packages installed before)
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
2) Change the installer mode
$ chmod +x ./VMware-Player-3.1.1-282343.x86_64.bundle
3) Execute the installer
$ gksudo bash ./VMware-Player-3.1.1-282343.x86_64.bundle
When popup appear, click Install.

Note:
Tested on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Linux Mint 10 64-bit.

Update (20/11/2010)
Command to uninstall.
sudo bash vmware-installer -u vmware-player
Update (01/03/2011)
Tested VMWare Player 3.1.3 on Linux Mint 10 64-bit

4 comments:

  1. How is VMware Player compared to VirtualBox? Much faster? Any complications?

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  2. I can't really tell the different in terms of performance. Here's a good article about the features comparison between the two.

    Quick note:
    VMWare Player support Windows Aero
    VirtualBox support snapshot

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  3. Just found out some info regarding snapshot:

    "VMware Player only supports one snapshot per VM. However, if you need multiple snapshots, you can consider buying VMware workstation version."

    source:
    http://www.dbuggr.com/milly/snapshots-vmware-player/

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