How To Install Vmware Workstation 10 on Ubun

The other day  a friend of mine asked me to install VMware Workstation 10 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64 for him so I did and here is how I did it:

 

1) Open Terminal  and cd to the installation directory (ie. cd Downloads/vmware)

2) You need to add execution rights to the bundle for version for my particular version of Vmware Workstation 8 it is following:

        chmod +x VMware-Workstation-Full-8.0.1-528992.x86_64.bundle
      

 

3) Then you need to run the installer and follow the installation steps:

        sudo ./VMware-Workstation-Full-8.0.1-528992.x86_64.bundle
      

 

4) run following:

        sudo apt-get install build-essential
      

 

5) finish the VMware installation:

        sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
      

 

6) profit!

Note:

if step 5 fails with “Failed to setup build environment.” you need to install correct linux headers:

        apt-cache search linux-headers-$(uname -r)
      

 

and

        apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
      

 

then return to step 5 and try again – it should be alright