I upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 and now if I want to open VMware Player it doesn't do anything.
I also uninstalled and installed it again, still nothing.
What can I do?
Ubuntu – VMware won’t work after Ubuntu Upgrade
15.10vmware
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Of course you can =) Actually trying Ubuntu in a virtualized environment is more than encouraged =)
Resources:
What solved this for me is setting media.mediasource.webm.enabled to true in about:config
I also have the following keys set to true manually:
media.mediasource.enabledmedia.fragmented-mp4.exposedmedia.fragmented-mp4.ffmpeg.enabled
These settings let you adjust the video quality as well (to me it does not work out of the box, everything is only available on 360p). Here is the full config I have, for reference:
Settings for media.fragmented*:
Settings for media.mediasource*:
Best Answer
The solution below applies to versions of VMWare prior to 12.1.0. The 12.1.0 version of VMWare does not require this fix.
VMWare and VMPlayer are in fact looking for a specific library string. You can execute VMWare/VMPlayer from the terminal by executing
then
vmwareorvmplayerI made this a permanent change on my system by executing instead
executing
sudo nano /usr/bin/vmwareand adding the lineexport LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1after the line
export PRODUCT_NAME...Press ctrl+o to save and ctrl+x to exit: VMWare will now work.
To perform the same function for VMPlayer, execute the same changes to
/usr/bin/vmplayer