How to Install VMware Player on CentOS/RHEL and Ubuntu

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VMware Player is used for creating virtual machines on any desktop systems. If you are an windows user and learning Linux, It can be much useful for you. Using vmware you can easily create a guest machine within few minutes and start working. After completing your work you can simply delete it.

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Step 1: Download VMware bundle File

First go to vmware download page and download latest available version in bundle file. You can also use below url to download it.

# cd /opt
# https://download3.vmware.com/software/player/file/VMware-Player-7.1.2-2780323.x86_64.bundle

vmware-player-7-download-page

Step 2: Install VMware Player

After downloading vmware bundle file, install it using following command.

# chmod +x VMware-Player-7.1.2-2780323.x86_64.bundle
# ./VMware-Player-7.1.2-2780323.x86_64.bundle

Installation startup will show you the license agreement. Accept the agreement and complete the installation.

Step 3: Start VMware Player

After successfully installation of vmware player, lets start vmware from Applications >> System Tools >> Vmware Player Menu .

Congratulation’s! You have successfully install VMware player on you linux system.

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  4. Zydoon on

    Hi thank you for this article
    to make things smooth, you’ll need to install this packge (if not)
    yum -y install libcanberra-gtk2-0.22-1.el6.x86_64
    and add this file canberra.conf under this directory /etc/ld.so.conf.d
    canberra.conf should contain this (and only this)
    /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/modules
    after that, as root you run ldconfig
    that will remove these errors:
    [zydoon@mimo ~]$ vmplayer
    Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “pk-gtk-module”: libpk-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”: libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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