VMware Workstation 16.2.3 Player for Linux 64-bit on Tuxedo (Ubuntu-derivate)?

[nachtkrabb]

Hallo everybody,

thank you for helping me with the base questions in issue "How do I move my virtual VMware Fusion-machine from Mac OS tu Unix Ubuntu?".

Now I have my brand-new Tuxedo computer at home with OS "Tuxedo", an Ubuntu-derivate. I admit I am really happy.

As advised in the last issue, I have downloaded the bundle "VMware Workstation 16.2.3 Player for Linux 64-bit". I admit it -- I am a Unix-newbee. What do I do with the bundle...? How do I install the Player...?

On https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2073804 I have just read that VMWare is kind of included in Ubuntu and other Unix-OSs, but not in Tuxedo? Is that correct? If so: What can I do now -- besides throwing everything away and restart my machine from scratch with Ubuntu instead of Tuxedo?

Thank you very much again.

Nachtkrabb (do you see me blush?)

[nachtkrabb]

OK, I did as they told on https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/VMware_Workstation_Player/.

1. Download bundle moved to Dokuments, there I want the data of the virtal machine.

2. In Terminal sudo bash VMware-Player-Full-16.2.3-19376536.x86_64.bundle

3. Startet: Installing VMWare Player 16.2.3 No GUI, but "Installation was successful".

4. On first start a popup was displayed -- some other things had to be installed before usage. I said "go".

5. Unable to install all modules. See log /tmp/vmware-USER/vmwware-13969.log for details. (Exit code 1)

In the log I found the following at the beginning, where 'Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden' translates to 'file or diectory not found:

2022-07-16T12:20:59.112Z In(05) host-13969 Log for VMware Workstation pid=13969 version=16.2.3 build=build-19376536 option=Release
2022-07-16T12:20:59.112Z In(05) host-13969 The host is 64-bit.
2022-07-16T12:20:59.112Z In(05) host-13969 Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
2022-07-16T12:20:59.112Z In(05) host-13969 Host is Linux 5.15.0-10041-tuxedo TUXEDO OS TUXEDO OS 22.04
2022-07-16T12:20:59.112Z In(05) host-13969 Host offset from UTC is +02:00.
2022-07-16T12:20:59.112Z In(05) host-13969 DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden.
2022-07-16T12:20:59.112Z In(05) host-13969 [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden.

In the middle:

Message: 'stderr: [AppLoader] GLib does not have GSettings support.\nUsing kernel build system.\nwarning: the compiler differs from the one us
ed to build the kernel\n  The kernel was built by: gcc (Ubuntu 11.2.0-18ubuntu1) 11.2.0\n  You are using:           gcc (Ubuntu 11.2.0-19ubunt
u1) 11.2.0\n/tmp/modconfig-lHmVKZ/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o: warning: objtool: PhysTrack_Free() falls through to next function PhysTrack_A
dd()\n/tmp/modconfig-lHmVKZ/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o: warning: objtool: PhysTrack_Add() falls through to next function PhysTrack_Remove()
\n/tmp/modconfig-lHmVKZ/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o: warning: objtool: PhysTrack_Remove() falls through to next function PhysTrack_Test()\nI
n file included from /tmp/modconfig-lHmVKZ/vmmon-only/./include/x86desc.h:33,\n                 from /tmp/modconfig-lHmVKZ/vmmon-only/./includ
e/modulecall.h:34,\n                 from /tmp/modconfig-lHmVKZ/vmmon-only/common/task.c:60:\n/tmp/modconfig-lHmVKZ/vmmon-only/common/task.c:
In function \u2018TaskRestoreHostGDTTRLDT\u2019:\n/tmp/modconfig-lHmVKZ/vmmon-only/./include/vm_asm_x86.h:67:44: error: expression in static a
ssertion is not constant\n   67 |    ASSERT_ON_COMPILE(sizeof(Selector) == 2 &&                                \\\n      |                    

At the end I read:

2022-07-16T12:21:15.936Z In(05) host-13969 /tmp/modconfig-JaYHsR/vmnet-only/driver.c:976:4: note: here
2022-07-16T12:21:15.936Z In(05) host-13969 976 | case SIOCGETAPIVERSION:
2022-07-16T12:21:15.936Z In(05) host-13969 | ^~~~
2022-07-16T12:21:15.936Z In(05) host-13969 Skipping BTF generation for /tmp/modconfig-JaYHsR/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko due to unavailability of vmlinux
2022-07-16T12:21:15.936Z In(05) host-13969 Unable to install all modules. See log for details.
2022-07-16T12:21:15.936Z In(05) host-13969

Es scheint aber schon einiges da zu sein:

root@meintollerrechner:/tmp/vmware-USER# vm
vmnet-bridge                      vmware-fuseUI
vmnet-dhcpd                       vmware-gksu
vmnet-natd                        vmware-installer
vmnet-netifup                     vmware-license-check.sh
vmnet-sniffer                     vmware-license-enter.sh
vmplayer                          vmware-modconfig
vmrest                            vmware-mount
vmstat                            vmware-netcfg
vmware-authd                      vmware-networks
vmware-authdlauncher              vmware-ping
vmware-collect-host-support-info  vmware-uninstall
vmwarectrl                        vmware-usbarbitrator

Please help me as I have no idea what I have to do. Thank you very much.

Nachtkrabb

[scott28tt]

One thing to be clear on, it is open-vm-tools which is included in Linux distributions, that’s for when you run it as a guest OS in a VM, not for when you run VMs on it as a host OS.

You still need to download VMware Workstation Pro or Player to install on the host OS.

[nachtkrabb]

Thank you, Scott28tt. I downloaded the bundle & installed it. That went right.

On first start it said in a popup that further software had to be installed & I said "go".

Then this didn't work as described above.

So I am at a loss.

N.