If you are using a 64 bit host OS, then you might be able to use mkubecek's host patches in order to get an older VMware Player to work on your host.
See:
https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules
If that doesn't work.. look into virtual box or qemu instead of VMware Player.
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Wil
Hi,
@NorthernSky wrote:
Sorry folks but I posted a reply and I don’t see it here so I post it again. I’m new to this forum and I find it difficult to navigate
You're a new user, added a link to a download... your post ended up in the spam queue. The forum software is unable to determine that links to its own download sites are perfectly fine. Something we moderators informed vmware a year or so ago about.. So not your fault.
I downloaded VMware Player for Linux 32-bit from this site
VMware Player 6.0 - VMware Customer Connect
That frankly makes little sense. It will never work on a 5.x Linux kernel.
It's from what.. 2015? That's ancient.. when we talk about something so tightly integrated with Linux kernel interfaces.
What's the output from the command:
uname -a
when you type it in a command line terminal?
I'm asking this as your CPU does 64 bit just fine and I would be really surprised if you installed a 32 bit Mint (not even sure it exists for that version).
You can run 32 bit Windows XP on a 64 bit host OS.. that's not a problem.
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Wil
Hi Nicolas,
@NorthernSky wrote:
nf@nf-P5K3-Deluxe:~$ uname -a
Linux nf-P5K3-Deluxe 5.4.0-97-generic #110-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 13 18:22:13 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
As expected you are running a 64 bit version of the Linux kernel.
So you can just download Workstation Player 12.5.9 and use the code from @mkubecek on github.
https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/
edited: changed above URL back to the main version.
Yes, you can use it with Player 12.5.9 on a modern kernel, the explanation on how it works is on the main page, there's tags and releases.. not just releases.
(Sorry I don't use this myself, but a lot of people do and I probably will do so myself one day too)
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Wil