CD/DVD drives, LAN adapters, and USB devices that don’t require any configuration can serve as hosts. You need access to the host PC’s devices. Microsoft Virtual Machines and Symantec’s LiveState Recovery disk formats are both compatible with VMware Player. Use VMware Workstation, GSX Server, or ESX Server to run virtual machines. Use whatever virtual machine you choose.VMware Player is free for personal/non-commercial use. VMWare makes a good free product with the Player application, it’s a component on the larger Workstation system.VMware Player is free software and works like VMware Workstation which is the same software from the same company but not free. Step 1: Download the official VMware binary package.
The most stable and latest version of the VMware Workstation can be downloaded from their official website.įor remote usage, I’ve always had VIX, their CLI API to start and stop VM’s remotely. Open your Ubuntu command line, the Terminal, either through the system Dash or the Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut. Then, enter the following wget command in order to download the binary package to.
With the coming of Workstation-Player 15.03 (actually I think a few before this). VIX 1.17 was the latest to work and it ended with Player 14.1.2 Installing VMware Workstation Player on Ubuntu The first step is to install the build dependencies. There is a work around because VIX 1.17 is only missing the Player 15 specific binaries to interact with VIX. Hence the Workstation-Pro 15 can be installed, the binaries extracted and then Player 15 can be installed, binaries injected, and registered in the VIX wrapper file. Workstation-15.0.0 cp /tmp/ #uninstall Workstation sudo vmware-installer -uninstall-product=vmware-workstation #install Player 15.0.3 and VIX 1.17 chmod u+x VMware-Player-15.0.3-12422535.x86_64.bundle sudo. VMware-VIX-1.17.0-6661328.x86_64.bundle #inject the v15 binaries tar -xzvf -directory /usr/lib/vmware-vix/ #register the addtional binaries with VIX cat >/usr/lib/vmware-vix/vixwrapper-config.txt # Workstation 15.0.3 ws 19 vmdb 15.0.3 Workstation-15.0.0 player 19 vmdb 15.0.3 Workstation-15.0.0 EOF # Now starting/stopping a VM (eg headless) is now possible: vmrun -T player start /vms/myvm.
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