It will install VMWare Tools automatically.įor newer operating systems you’ll need to install VMWare Tools manually – more on that in a later blog article. For older Ubuntu versions such as 12.04, VMWare Player recognises the operating system and provides you a quick and easy wizard to install.
Once patched, search for VMWare Player in the dash again and this time all will be well and it will fire up.įrom VMWare Player you can create new guests. I followed this excellent guide – dont worry, whilst this guide mentions Trusty alpha and vmware player 6.0.1 the instructions equally applies to the latest version of Trusty (at the time of writing 14.04.1) and kernel 3.13.0.36 You’ll need to patch the VMWare sources to overcome this. This will fail due to kernel 3.13 used in Ubuntu 14.04.
However, subsequent to running VMWare Player from the dash it will attempt to compile various kernel modules. Next reach for your terminal and navigate to where you downloaded the bundle file and give it execute permissions cd ~/Downloads There are no debian packages available like VirtualBox.įirst Download the 32bit/64bit Linux bundle file from here So how do I install VMWare player on Ubuntu 14.04… So the following is what I learned – I’ve split this into two posts – the second describes my trials and tribulations trying to convert an existing virtualbox guest to VMWare format. must be fairly simple to setup & configureģD Graphics acceleration is the killer feature here for me – without having to use a full bare metal solution, VMWare Player seemed to me to be the only viable solution (at least at the moment).easy to move my mouse cursor from Guest to Host without having to use key combinations to release the cursor.ability to share folders with my host easily – I do my developing in Guests but I share data files stored on my Host.3D Graphics acceleration – I dont want my guest to behave like a slug.So what other virtualisation software could I use on my Ubuntu 14.04 host? My basic requirements were straightforward: Every new version it seems brings new problems. I’ve had numerous X-windows crashes & failures to suspend to resume. I had been an avid VirtualBox user but I’ve become increasingly disenchanted with VirtualBox unstable nature.
Over the recent weeks I’ve been using VMWare Player to play, experiment and develop in various operating systems & various versions of Ubuntu.
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