After these operations just start it and you’re set. Then update your config files with etc-update scriptįinally configure WM Player with gentoo command emerge -config vmware-playerĭo not use VMWare original config utility like in the past. Please keep in mind you need to have a configured kernel with this flag turned on: CONFIG_MMU=y Enable Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Ubuntu Server Whether you want to configure a simple file server or build a fifty thousand-node cloud, you can rely on Ubuntu Server and its five years of guaranteed free upgrades. This allows you to have vmware-player v2.5.4.xxx (available at the moment of writing) installed on your desktop with common modules and utilities. Use the Ubuntu terminal and run Linux applications on Windows. Unmasked vmplayer by adding these lines on /etc/package.keywords # VMWare Fixes Even more, if you’d like to have a quite recent/updated version of the client because you need to deal with VMWare Server (v1 & 2) installations you at least need to use Player v2 (2.5 even better, v3/4 available on ubuntu is awesome but on gentoo you don’t have them yet).

VMWare Player on amd64 is not masked, you can find the package unmasked and freely available but if you try to install it on a recently updated installation you’ll run into troubles or installation errors (like me). I prefer to install only stable packages and nothing masked by the arch, sometimes you need to unmask packages. If you want to have a clean gentoo installation on your desktop client you tend to keep your /etc/portage/package.keywords file shortest as possible. Here’s a very simple argument with just few tricks: Install VMWare Player on Gentoo, nothing strange but on Gentoo amd64 there are few little exceptions.

If I make sure RHEL 7.8 is fully up to date the computer does not get the UEFI splash screen.There’s been a while since my latest one but I’m now back. Please make sure that the kernel module 'vmmon' is loaded.

The mok is imported and then I try to run VMWare and I get Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. I get Cant't find private key when I sign vmnet/vmmon however, other articles on the internet have indicated that this is OK. usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/scripts/sign-file sha256. This may work with Ubuntu but with RHEL 7.8/8 I use the following commands (as root): openssl req -new -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout VMWare.priv -outform DEF -out r -nodes -days 36500 -subj '/CN=VMware/'

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