Intalling VMware Player on Ubuntu 12.04

In my pursuit to learn Hadoop, I decided to use one of the Hadoop virtual machine images provided by Cloudera before actually installing Hadoop on my Ubuntu 12.04. Cloudera provides virtual machines for VMWare, KVM and VirtualBox. For more information about Cloudera Hadoop virtual  machines, please visit Cloudera Demo VM . I decided to go with VMWare image. This required me to install VMWare player. In this blog, you will find step by step instructions to install VMWare player and solution to the problems faced during this process.

1. While looking for VMWare Player(vmplayer) installer, i found that vmplayer installer is not provided by the repositories, you have to instead download it from VMware website. While downloading please make sure that you download the latest and correct version for your architecture. That is, if you’re running the 32-bit version of Ubuntu, get the 32-bit version, and if you’re running the 64-bit version of Ubuntu, get the 64-bit version. To find out the version of Ubuntu running on your computer, type in uname -m  from the terminal and press enter. If the result is x86_64, you’re running the 64-bit version of Ubuntu. If it says i686, you’re running the 32-bit version of Ubuntu.

2. The downloaded file is VMware-Player-4.0.3-703057.x86_64.txt for the 64-bit version. The download will vary depending upon Ubuntu version(32-bit vs 64-bit) and version of the vmplayer. Before installing vmplayer, check the file permissions of the downloaded file. You need to have execute permissions on the file. If you do not have execute permissions on the file, please execute the following command to change the mode of the file to have execute permissions.

chmod +x VMware-Player-4.0.3-703057.x86_64.txt

3. The installer may need to build and install kernel modules, so it’s advisable to make sure you have the necessary packages to facilitate this. Run uname -r. The output should end in generic, generic-pae,server, or virtual. If it doesn’t end in generic, replace generic below with whatever it does end in.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic

4. Now run the installer. You have to run it as root, so use sudo:

sudo ./VMware-Player-4.0.3-703057.x86_64.txt

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