[Solved] How to install VMPlayer on Ubuntu 22.04

First, download it from the official url

Now, change the permissions to execute it:

chmod +x VMware-Player-Full-16.2.3-19376536.x86_64.bundle
sudo ./VMware-Player-Full-16.2.3-19376536.x86_64.bundle

Now, you need to run VMPlayer, but you probably see the following issue:

 

 
 
To install all modules in newer kernels, just install  this package:

wget https://codeload.github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tar.gz/refs/heads/workstation-16.2.1 -O workstation-16.2.1.tar.gz
tar xvf workstation-16.2.1.tar.gz
cd vmware-host-modules-workstation-16.2.1/
make
sudo make install
 
If you try to run an image, you could see the following alert:


This means you need to load the vmmon and vmnet modules to the kernel:

sudo modprobe vmmon
sudo modprobe vmnet
 
Now, you could run VMPlayer without issues!


 

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