How to Install VMware Workstation Player on Ubuntu 18.04 | 20.04

This post shows users and new students that How to Install VMware Workstation Player on Ubuntu 18.04 | 20.04. If you wish to Install VMware Workstation Player on Ubuntu then this post is ideal for you.

VMware Workstation Player is an ideal virtualization solution for create and run multiple virtual machine on a Windows or Linux Systems.

The free version VMware Workstation Player is available but only for personal and home uses. You can not use its free version for commercial use. If you want to use an opensource virtualization software(solution), then you can go for VirutalBox.

For more detail about VMware Workstation Player, please go to its official  website.

Follow the below steps when you are ready to Install VMware Workstation Player on Ubuntu :

Step 1: Install Required Packages

You need to install some required packages on Ubuntu Before VMware Workstation Player installation:

Run the below commands to install required packages

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wget gcc build-essential linux-headers-generic linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Step 2: Download VMware Workstation Player

After install all the required package, now go and download VMware Workstation Player from its official download page :

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads

Or you can also use the commands line for download and install it. For dot hat run the below commands to download and install VMware Workstation Player.

cd /tmp
wget --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0" https://www.vmware.com/go/getplayer-linux

Step 3: Install VMware Workstation Player

Now, run the below commands to install VMware Workstation Player.

chmod +x getplayer-linux
sudo ./getplayer-linux

When the installation process will run non-interactively. It means, you will not have to complete an installation wizard.

You will get a successful message similar like to the below:

Extracting VMware Installer…done.
Installing VMware Player 15.5.2
Configuring…
[######################################################################] 100%
Installation was successful.

After finish the installation process, then now go and launch VMware Workstation Player from the Ubuntu Activities Dashboard.

When you launch the VMware Workstation Player, it will open a wizard to complete the setup.

Now accept “VMWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT” from wizard.

Accept the license agreement terms option to continue setup

Accept to update on startup and continue setup

If you want use it for only personal use then you can skip the license key page to use the product for non-commercial use and If you want to use it for commercial use then you need to purchase a license key and enter it here or you can do it after finish installation the program.

And at the last, click on Install button to start the installation.

After complete installing of VMware Workstation Player, then go to the Activities overview and look for VMware Player, then click on it to open.

That’s all

If you find any error and issue in above steps , please use comment box below to report.