VMware Workstation Player allows you to create and run your own virtual machines and evaluate software distributed as a virtual appliance from many software vendors available from VMware’s Solution Exchange . VMware Workstation Player is not open-source and it is free only for personal non-commercial use. If you are looking for an open-source virtualization platform, you should try Oracle’s VirtualBox . This tutorial will show you how to install VMware Workstation Player on Kali Linux/Debian/Ubuntu.
Open your terminal update the packages list and install the build dependencies by running
Run the following commands in the terminal as root:
apt install aptitude
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
aptitude install build-essential
aptitude install linux-headers-$(dpkg --print-architecture)
wget --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0" https://www.vmware.com/go/getplayer-linux
chmod +x getplayer-linux
Start the Installation wizard by typing:
./getplayer-linux
Uninstalling VMware
If for some reasons you want to uninstall VMware Player, use the following command:
sudo /usr/bin/vmware-installer -u vmware-player
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