Kernel Module Update was required when opening VMWare
client (vmplayer
) then following error occurs. Any idea would be appreciated.
Unable to start services.
See log file /tmp/vmware-root/setup-NNN.log for details (Note: NNN looks like random numbers)
On GUI that show progress of updating, "Virtual Netowork Device" show red flag appears. Content of .log file is here: http://pastebin.com/wEKT5UHf
This page suggests installing linux-headers-generic
and build-essential
, which are already installed on mine (thus no good).
This could be 1st execution of vmplayer
on my machine since I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 from 11.10.
Environment: VMware Player 4.0.3 build-703057
Best Answer
VMWare is behind the times and the VMWare modules will not compile by default on kernel 3.2, which Ubuntu 12.04 uses.
Please use the patch available in this blog post, and then try to compile again.
I can confirm that the patch worked for me on both VMWare Player 4.x and Workstation 8.x on Ubuntu 12.04.