Trouble installing VMware Workstation Pro on Ubuntu 20.04

[yeryjo]

I have seen a lot of references to this same problem, but none on Ubuntu in the last 6 months.

To install, I ran:

sudo ./VMware-Workstation-Full-16.2.1-18811642.x86_64.bundle 

 No errors, completed successfully.

When I go to launch VMware Workstation, I get the following popup.

I select install and enter in my admin credentials and get the following popup.

And then this...

*The log file has been attached to this thread.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[scott28tt]

Thread reported so moderators know it should be moved to the area for Workstation Pro.

[bertramaerts]

Hi,

Are you using secure boot on your system?
Then the VMWare kernel modules need to be signed.
See https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2146460.

Kind regards,
Bert

[yeryjo]

Thank you for the quick reply.

I wasn't sure if my system was configured for Secure Boot, as I had purchased it with Ubuntu pre-loaded.

I ended up running the following command and recieved the following response:

root@system76-pc:/home/yery# mokutil
This system doesn't support Secure Boot

[ajgringo619]

The only thing that stood in the log was the kernel version - not a stock Ubuntu 20 version, to be sure. Can you try again with one of the standard kernels, or is the v5.15 kernel one you really need?

[bertramaerts]

If your kernel is 5.15 then you should manually patch the vmmon and vmnet before compiling them as described in:

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-16-2-1-vmmon-amp-vmnet-not-comp...

[yeryjo · Accepted solution]

Thank you, everyone for your support and attention to my trouble!

This has been resolved.

I checked my version this morning and was confused, because the suggestion was that the issue was with kernel 5.15. I must have pulled an update since last attempting the install.

yery@system76-pc:~$ uname -r
5.16.11-76051611-generic

After reading through some suggested threads and found the following post:

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5452131

submitted by sabennett

These were the commands that got me up and operational:

wget https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/archive/workstation-16.2.1.tar.gz
  tar -xzf workstation-16.2.1.tar.gz
  cd vmware-host-modules-workstation-16.2.1
  tar -cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
  tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
  sudo cp -v vmmon.tar vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/
  sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

[peterofoz]

Awesome - that worked like a champ.