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BurhanCetin
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‎10-29-2011 04:53 AM

vmplayer run problem after upgrading ubuntu

hi,

vm player was running well.

but it doesnt run after upgrade system to ubuntu 11.10.

its getting that message when i try to run it.

before you can run VMware, several modules must be compiled and loaded into the running kernel.

there is a install button under this message.

then its trying yo install and getting that error.

Unable to build kernel module. /tmp/vmware-root/setup-3715.log

the logs are:

Oct 29 14:18:53.719: app-139879275329312| Your GCC version: 4.6

Oct 29 14:18:53.752: app-139879275329312| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.0.0-12-generic.

Oct 29 14:18:54.698: app-139879275329312| Building module vmmon.

Oct 29 14:18:54.723: app-139879275329312| Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Oct 29 14:18:54.858: app-139879275329312| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPO$

Oct 29 14:19:00.040: app-139879275329312| Failed to compile module vmmon!

how can i fix it?

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jjex22
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‎10-30-2011 01:17 PM

Heya, this post seems to have had the same problem

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=395077

in short the command seems to be

sudo apt-get install build-essential -y && sudo vmware-config.pl

Hope it helps

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slacroixfr
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‎12-31-2011 04:00 AM

Hitting the same problem, and the above trick fails with the following error:

vmware-config.pl: command not found

But I fear it was for workstation 6.X

My case is for Ubuntu 11.10 linux 3.0.0-14-generic,  vmware workstation 7.1.4

any help would be greatly appreciated

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