VMware Player in Ubuntu
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Ubuntu 7.10 Instructions
Installing from package
Add the following repository in /etc/apt/sources.list to install vmware-player in Ubuntu 7.10.
# VMware Player deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cschieli/ubuntu gutsy main
Install VMware Player.
$ sudo apt-get update && apt-get install vmware-player
Ubuntu 8.10 Instructions
Installing from source
Install the packages needed to build the VMware Player kernel modules.
$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential
Extract VMware Player.
$ tar zxvf VMware-player-2.0.3-80004.i386.tar.gz
Install VMware Player.
$ cd vmware-player-distrib $ sudo ./vmware-install.pl
It is likely that VMware Player kernel module compilation will fail. If it does, download the "vmware-any-any" patch, extract it, and run runme.pl.
