Install and Run VMware player on BT5 R1

[cgelici]

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.

[wabbitoid]

Thanks very much, this worked for me!

[therealfunkys0ul]

the patch worked great with workstation 7.1.4 too
thx

[tudor]

Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[clone]

perfect. thank you

[antani2]

worked for me too.
thanks a lot

[ladycroft]

@cgelici
I registered this account just to say I love you.

[userM9J]

Hey there. This post was extremely helpful. Today I updated from 3.1.4 to 3.1.5 and the original errors came back (unable to install modules, etc, etc). Unfortunately, the patch (2.6.39) won't install for player version 3.1.5. However, VMware player 4.0 also came out today and I installed that over the non working installation of 3.1.5 and all is working again without issues.

Hope that helps for anyone trying the new versions of VM player.

M9J

[confuciuz]

The patch (vmware2.6.39patchv3.tar.bz2) did the trick!

My VMplayer is up and running now

Thanks for taking the time to post and share the helpful solution