Black Screen with WMware player in Ubuntu 12.10

[petramika]

Hello everyone:

I'm using VMware-Player-5.0.0-812388.x86_64.bundle with the new Ubuntu 12.10. I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.10, the problem is that when I try to run the virtual machine a black screen appears (I have to restart Gnome to continue working) and the application closes. I leave a screen shot.

In Ubuntu 12.04 I didn't have any problem, and I didn't have to install any package, with Ubuntu 12.10 in the installation, it asked me about a kernel package that the installer needed for compiling and I installed. After that the installation finished normally. Also I can run normally my virtual machines in Windows 7.

I don't know if it is because something is missing in my Linux, any package or libraries, or it's due to an incompatibility between WMware player 5 and Ubuntu 12.10. I have tried to install previous version but gives me other different problems...

Thanks to anyone who can help me, and sorry for my bad English

[Klawd1]

Same ubuntu version, same wmware player and same error. Did u find a fix?

[joneliot]

Same setup, same symptoms. Very abrupt crash, if vmplayer is started from a command line, the whole Unity session freezes.

[Klawd1]

Found out that switching between consoles F4-F5-etc unfreezes the system.

[joneliot]

Patch:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/203004/kernel-error-when-upgrade-12-10-vmware-has-install-in-12-04

Tried, worked. Uninstall necessary, did the simple two-step version. Then reinstall from the downloaded bundle, apply patch as described, run.

[Klawd1]

Works for me too. Thanks.

[petramika]

Taks very much!! that worked!! I was going to wait until the next version thinking that then it will work with ubuntu or install ubuntu 12.04 again, but this is much better!!

Thanks again