Now I can at least load my VMs, however the vmnet module seems not to work. I figured out that you can manually load the modules and I did $ sudo modprobe -a Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded. $ /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer Could not open /dev/vmmon: Cannot open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official VMware website.I installed VmWare Playe anew, then applied the patches from īut when I start without the wrapper, I get vmmon error, even though my Secure Boot is disabled (as suggested by this vm-ware article: ) Thanks for using this tutorial for installing VMware Workstation Player on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa system. When you start the application for the first time, a window like the following will appear asking you whether you like to use VMware Workstation Player for free for personal non-commercial use:Ĭongratulations! You have successfully installed VMware. Once the installation is successful, go and launch VMware Workstation Player from the Activities Dashboard. Accessing VMware Workstation Player on Ubuntu.

You will get a successful message similar to the one below: Extracting VMware Installer…done.

Once the download is completed, make the installation file executable and install it: chmod +x getplayer-linux Now we download the latest version of VMware Workstation Player from the official website: wget -user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (X11 Linux x86_64 rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0' Installing Workstation Player on Ubuntu 20.04. Before VMware Workstation Player, you must install some required Ubuntu packages: sudo apt install wget gcc build-essential linux-headers-generic

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