Install and Run VMware player on BT5 R1

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For the people who have difficulties installing or running VMware player on Backtrack 5 R1, I hope this post will offer a solution for you.

First of all download the application from the official website.

Before installing make sure to:

prepare-kernel-sources

Then do:

chmod +x VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.i386.bundle


./VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.i386.bundle

(This is the current version when writing this post)

When you run it for the first time you may notice an error saying something about a module unable to install and refers you to an error log. My log said vmmod was failing to install.

The solution is to download this patch

Then do:

tar -xvf vmware2.6.39patchv3.tar.bz2

chmod +x patch-modules_2.6.39.sh

./patch-modules_2.6.39.sh

And then run VMware player again. If everything went well it should work now. It did for me.