Can't Launch VMware 15.5 on Xubuntu 21.04

needhelpp — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 06:26:34 GMT

My VMware Workstation 15.5 pro won't open on Linux host I installed Vmware 15.5 pro on xununtu 21.04 by installing the .bundle and executing it in the terminal but when I click on VMware workstation on player to open it, there's a little loading circle, then nothing opens. not sure if it is my terminal so here is a picture of what happens when i type "uname -r" I am not sure what is happening. Any suggestions?

Re: Can't Launch VMware 15.5 on Xubuntu 21.04

needhelpp — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 06:54:42 GMT

when i open user/bin/vmware i get:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Copyright 2005-2008, 2020 VMware, Inc.  All rights reserved.
#
# Wrapper for the real 'vmware' binary. Ensure that the
# binary will find all the shared libraries it needs. If a shared
# library is not available from any of the standard system-wide
# locations, we provide it from the location where the VMware software
# is installed.
#

set -e

ETCDIR=/etc/vmware
. $ETCDIR/bootstrap

export PRODUCT_NAME="VMware Workstation"
libdir="$LIBDIR"/vmware

bindir=$libdir/bin
sharedir=$libdir/share

ZENITY=$bindir/vmware-zenity

toolsRebuildError="
The VMware Tools kernel modules could not be automatically rebuilt.

Please manually run:
  vmware-config-tools.pl --modules-only
To rebuild them.
"

# The new Ubuntu menu system "steals" our menu out of the UI, which causes problems
# with fullscreening.  These variables disable that in various unity versions.
export APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH=1
export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0

# bug-buddy breaks logging
export GNOME_DISABLE_CRASH_DIALOG=1

vmci_alias='pci:v000015ADd00000740sv*sd*bc*sc*i*'
vsock_alias='vmware_vsock'
vmmon='vmmon'

vmware_module_exists()
{
   modalias=$1
   /sbin/modprobe -n $modalias > /dev/null 2>&1
}

# If there are command line arguments like -version, launch the binary without
# checking configuration state or running the module updater.
if echo "$1" | grep -q "^-"; then
   exec "$libdir"/bin/"vmware" "$@"
fi

# Only run the GUI if DISPLAY is set.
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then
   echo "DISPLAY is not set, unable to open the $PRODUCT_NAME user interface."
   exit 1
fi

# If we are running in a VM, vmci, vsock, and vmblock will not be under our
# control.  If the files don't exist and we are not controlling them, call out
# to Tools in order to build them.
# Also note that vmblock may be handled as a fuse module and hence may not
# be installed as a kernel module.  It might also not be there at all so we don't
# check for it.
if ! cat $libdir/modules/modules.xml|grep -q 'name="vmci"'; then
   set +e # Unset failure mode, we want to catch and deal with errors on our own
   failure=0
   if ! vmware_module_exists $vmci_alias || ! vmware_module_exists $vsock_alias; then
      # The locations database is appended to with each reconfiguration, so
      # be sure only to grab only the final appearing value.
      tools_BINDIR=`grep "answer BINDIR" /etc/vmware-tools/locations | tail -1 |cut -d ' ' -f 3`
      if [ -d "$tools_BINDIR" ]; then
         echo "Rebuilding VMware Tools modules..."
         outfile=`mktemp /tmp/vmware-modulesXXXXXX`
         ${tools_BINDIR}/vmware-config-tools.pl --modules-only --default >${outfile} 2>&1
         retval=$?
         if [ $retval != "0" ]; then
            cat ${outfile}
            rm -f ${outfile}
            failure=1
         fi
         rm -f ${outfile}
      else
         failure=1
      fi
   fi

   # If we hit a failure, report to the user that we failed.
   if [ "$failure" = "1" ]; then
      echo "******************************************************************"
      echo "$toolsRebuildError"
      $ZENITY --error --text="$toolsRebuildError"
      exit 1
   fi
   set -e # Reset failure mode
fi

if "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Workstation" --icon="vmware-workstation" &&
   vmware_module_exists $vmmon; then
   exec "$libdir"/bin/"vmware" "$@"
fi

exit 1

Re: Can't Launch VMware 15.5 on Xubuntu 21.04

wila — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 08:25:14 GMT

Hi,

The suggestion is to download and install the latest version.
The Linux kernel is in constant motion and as such the kernel modules regularly need updates so they still compile.

You can download the latest version of Workstation here:
https://www.vmware.com/go/getworkstation-linux

--
Wil

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