vmware player on ubuntu 15.10
I just uploaded to Ubuntu 15.10 and my vmware player is not working anymore.
I tried to follow the solution proposed here and here but it doesn't seem to be enough for me.
When I run vmplayer
I get a lot of error messages like
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "unity-gtk-module": libunity-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(vmware-modconfig:9701): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
At this point it asks me to compile and load several module into the kernel. If I say Install
it asks for my password and then gives some more errors like
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "unity-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
(vmware-gksu:9701): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Two different plugins tried to register 'BasicEngineFc'.
(vmware-gksu:9701): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
(vmware-gksu:9701): Pango-WARNING **: Failed to load Pango module '/usr/lib/vmware/libconf/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so' for id 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
(vmware-gksu:9701): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Two different plugins tried to register 'BasicEngineFc'.
(vmware-gksu:9701): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
and then it quits.
What should I do to fix this? I quite a noob, so please try to be as detailed as possible.
UPDATE: If I try to run sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
the output is
Stopping VMware services:
VMware Authentication Daemon done
VM communication interface socket family done
Virtual machine communication interface done
Virtual machine monitor done
Blocking file system done
make: Entering directory '/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only'
Using kernel build system.
/usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/4.2.0-16-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-16-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/linux/driverLog.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/apic.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1332:1: warning: always_inline function might not be inlina
ble [-Wattributes]
LinuxDriverSyncReadTSCs(uint64 *delta) // OUT: TSC max - TSC min
^
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/task.o
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2054:1: warning: the frame size of 1184 bytes is larger tha
n 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
}
^
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/comport.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/hashFunc.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/vmcore/moduleloop.o
LD [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/vmmon.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-16-generic'
/usr/bin/make -C $PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= postbuild
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only'
make[1]: 'postbuild' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only'
make: Entering directory '/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only'
Using kernel build system.
/usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/4.2.0-16-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-16-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/hub.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/userif.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/netif.o
In file included from include/linux/pci.h:35:0,
from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:27,
from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/netif.c:43:
include/linux/pci_ids.h:2252:0: warning: "PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE" redefined
#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE 0x15ad
^
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/net.h:38:0,
from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:26,
from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/netif.c:42:
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/vm_device_version.h:56:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE 0x15AD
^
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/procfs.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/smac_compat.o
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/smac.o
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/net.h:38:0,
from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:26,
from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.c:52:
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/vm_device_version.h:56:0: warning: "PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE" redefined
#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE 0x15AD
^
In file included from include/linux/pci.h:35:0,
from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:27,
from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.c:51:
include/linux/pci_ids.h:2252:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE 0x15ad
^
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.c:50:0:
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.c: In function ‘VNetBridgeUp’:
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/vmnetInt.h:81:40: error: too few arguments to function ‘sk_alloc’
# define compat_sk_alloc(_bri, _pri) sk_alloc(&init_net, \
^
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.c:952:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘compat_sk_alloc’
bridge->sk = compat_sk_alloc(bridge, GFP_ATOMIC);
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/compat_sock.h:23:0,
from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.c:35:
include/net/sock.h:1515:14: note: declared here
struct sock *sk_alloc(struct net *net, int family, gfp_t priority,
^
scripts/Makefile.build:258: recipe for target '/tmp/modconfig- sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Makefile:1398: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-16-generic'
Makefile:120: recipe for target 'vmnet.ko' failed
make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only'
Unable to install all modules. See log for details.
Solution 1:
(K)Ubuntu 15.10 with Kernel 4.2.0-17 and VMPlayer 7.1.2:
- open a terminal, eg. Konsole
cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
sudo tar -xf vmnet.tar
- use your favorite text editor, eg. joe, to edit vmnetInt.h:
sudo joe vmnet-only/vmnetInt.h
-
in line 82, add a trailing ",1" just as in line 84
old:
PF_NETLINK, _pri, &vmnet_proto)
new:
PF_NETLINK, _pri, &vmnet_proto, 1)
save your changes and add them back into the tar:
sudo tar -uf vmnet.tar vmnet-only/vmnetInt.h
- run vmplayer again, it should build now
sudo vmplayer
Solution 2:
This is what I did and it worked for me:
echo /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 | sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/LD_LIBRARY_PATH.conf
Then run:
sudo ldconfig
So it will stick.
I manually modified my file in order for it to work for me, but found an easier way in the VMware community forums to share here: Workstation 12 on Debian Linux host does not launch, no GUI no error messages.
Hope it helps , as it helped me ;-)
After this you should be able to still use your Icon in the Unity bar, or launch it from a terminal:
vmware
Solution 3:
i tried doing the following for my Ubuntu 15.10 My specifications are:
$ uname -a
Linux Shan-Ubuntu 4.2.0-19-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 11 11:39:30 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I firstly removed the VMWare Player previously installed using the following lines:
sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-player
sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-player
Then I reinstalled it from the website VMWare Website
and since I had a problem of canberra-gtk-module
I used:
sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk*
and once the download is done, in terminal I run:
vmplayer
with Gtk-Errors which can be completely ignored the VMplayer starts completely.
Hope this helps Shan