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Using VMware Player
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To install VMware Player on a Linux host
The steps below describe an installation from a CD-ROM disc. If you downloaded the software,
the steps are the same except that you start from the directory where you saved the installer file
you downloaded, not from the Linux directory on the CD.
1. Log on to your Linux host with the user name you plan to use when running VMware
Player.
2. In a terminal window, become root so you can perform the initial installation steps.
su -
3. Mount the VMware Player CD-ROM.
4. Change to the Linux directory on the CD.
5. To use the RPM installer, skip to step 6. To use the tar installer, take the following steps:
Note: You can skip the steps for copying and unpacking the archive and install directly
from the vmware-player-distrib directory on the CD.
a. Copy the tar archive to a temporary directory on your hard drive — for example, /tmp.
cp VMware-<xxxx>.tar.gz /tmp
b. Change to the directory to which you copied the file.
cd /tmp
c. Unpack the archive.
tar zxf VMware-<xxxx>.tar.gz
d. Change to the installation directory.
cd vmware-player-distrib
e. Run the installation program.
./vmware-install.pl
f. Accept the default directories for the binary files, library files, manual files,
documentation files and init script.
g. Answer Yes when prompted to run vmware-config.pl.
Skip to step 7.
6. To use the RPM installer:
a. Run RPM specifying the installation file.
rpm -Uhv VMware-<xxxx>.rpm
VMware-<xxxx>.rpm is the installation file on the CD-ROM. In place of <xxxx>,
the filename contains numbers that correspond to the version and build.
b. Run the configuration program from the command line.
vmware-config.pl
7. Press Enter to read the end user license agreement (EULA). You can page through the EULA
faster by pressing the spacebar. If the Do you accept prompt doesn’t appear, press Q
to get to the next prompt.
8. Accept the default values for the remaining prompts.
Note: If you do not enable host-only networking when you install VMware Player, you
cannot allow a virtual machine to use both bridged and host-only networking.