Ubuntu – Vmware Workstation in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

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I am unable to get vmware workstation to work in Ubuntu 9.10. The same installer worked fine in 9.04. Installation is successful, but initialization is not. Does anybody know a fix?

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 9.10
Release:        9.10
Codename:       karmic

VMware-Workstation-for-Linux-64bit-6.5.1-126130.x86_64

I don't think my key will work for version 7, sadly. I have a free 365 day student evaluation license.

Best Answer

I run VMWare Workstation on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic. In order to get it to install I had to follow these directions which basically state:

[...] By default the installer would freeze at the “Configuring…” stage, never actually completing.

1) The first step consists in installing the program via terminal and suppressing the warnings otherwise eventually stucking the installer. [...]

chmod u+x VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.i386.bundle
while true; do sudo killall -9
vmware-modconfig-console; sleep 1;

done in a separate terminal run:

sudo ./VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.i386.bundle --ignore-errors

when the installer has finished, terminate the previous command (while true…) with a CTRL+C or simply close the terminal window.

vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

[...] The mouse automatically ungrabs outside an area of 640 x 480 (vga resolution) edit file /etc/vmware/bootstrap add at the bottom

VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force
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