The demonstration was really helpful.

thank you. :)

Thanks for sharing the step by step by guide since I am new to Ubuntu and want to run my VM inside it.

 BTW, how did you get the windows like start menu in Ubuntu?                                                      

Grazie la guida è stata molto chiara ed esaustiva -  Thank very good  explain

That is a MINT feature - check out #13 Maya release - yenna daa?

thanks man, I was short of the install build-essential linux-headers part and getting an installation error.

Better instructions will be very very difficult to find (not that I am lookin for them any longer :-)

Thank you!

Following these instructions, VMware Player installed on Ubuntu 12.04. Thanks

Is there some other command that I should use in terminal?

Please help

Thank you 

Downloading with Google's chrome browser results in a file with .txt as a suffix, instead of .bundle. The installation subsequently failed. I couldn't be bothered to find out why. Switching to firefox and downloading it again gave the proper file suffix .bundle and installation succeeded.

Just rename the .txt file to a .bundle file, and it works great.

This (with one minor change) worked in Linux Mint 14 KDE

The minor change was, of course to use

kdesudo

instead of 

gksudo

Thanks very much for the how-to!!

TI

Falko, thanks a lot for this simple but comprehensive guideline. Wanted to ensure people find it for this versions as well.

thank you man you are a life saver

thanks man, it worked for me on linux mint 13. great

Thanx 4 Ur Help, Falko!...a Gentleman & a Scholar!

Thanks for the nice guide!

gksudo treats '-' as leading parameter values, so command line as represented above becomes invalid! error message: GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion 'value != NULL' failed simple solution - rename file before running command! e.g mv VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle vmware.bundle

very helpful i installed workstation, and it works g8, that bro.

Thanks very much. This worked with Mint 17.1 and VMware Player 12.

Thanks Bro. Works fine

Appreciation for this excellent installation guide. I managed to be successful with it right from the start. Thank you.

I tried ti install Virtual box several time but fail to do. Please help me. i am using Kali 2.0 in 32bit machine. i have to face following error when try to install virtualmachine

[email protected] // :~# apt-get install virtualboxReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree       Reading state information... DoneYou might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:The following packages have unmet dependencies: opera : Depends: libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 (>= 0.10.16) but it is not installable         Depends: libgstreamer0.10-0 (>= 0.10.15) but it is not installable         Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good but it is not installable virtualbox : Depends: virtualbox-dkms (>= 5.0.16-dfsg-2) but it is not going to be installed or                       virtualbox-source (>= 5.0.16-dfsg-2) but it is not going to be installed or                       virtualbox-modules              Depends: libgsoap8 but it is not going to be installed              Depends: libvncserver1 (>= 0.9.10) but it is not going to be installed              Conflicts: virtualbox-5.0 but 5.0.16-105871~Ubuntu~wily is to be installed              Recommends: virtualbox-qt (= 5.0.16-dfsg-2) but it is not going to be installed virtualbox-5.0 : Depends: libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0) but it is not installable                  Depends: libvpx2 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not installable                  Conflicts: virtualbox                  Recommends: libsdl-ttf2.0-0 but it is not going to be installed                  Recommends: linux-headers but it is not installableE: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).[email protected] // :~#

guys,

its not req these much procedures to install VM.

just download VM..

open terminal --> type 'sudo -i' --> type password --> drag and Drop the application ---> install -->> done

try it..!!

thanks