[xubuntu-users] Problem with Xubuntu in VMware Player

[Elbert LaGrew]

Usually to install VMWare tools and a new machine, you need to have VMWare
Workstation...not player. I only use Player to play an already running and
fully configured VM which I've made with VMWorkstation.

VMWorkstation is up to version 11.

With that said, you might look here:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1022525

--El

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Stephen P. Molnar <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> I am hoping to get assistance on this list, as my experience is that
> VMware is difficult to query successfully.
>
> I have installed Xubuntu v-14.10 in VMware Player v-7.1.0 build-2496824
> for several reasons. My primary purpose was to install xfce v-4.12 as
> Xubuntu seems to be the sole distro to make it easy to upgrade xfce.
> Incidental, it worked without any hitches. The other, actually more
> important, reason the use as a test bed before installing new applications
> on my production machine.
>
> However, to the problem.
>
> The installer installed the  3.16.0-23 kernel.  Happily, with that kerned
> I could access the Host C: drive.  However, updating the kernel to
> 3.160.31, necessitating the reinstallati0on of vmware-tools, resulted in
> errors in the reinstallation that makes the hos C: drive unavailable,
>
> It seems to me that there may be two solutions.  Number one would be to
> revet to the -23 kernel.  Now, I am  not too thrilled with this solution1
> It's been years since I've compiled a linux kernel, about 20 r so, and I am
> not too cm=comfortable with the idea of monkeying with grub.
>
> The second solution would be to successfully install vmware-tools with the
> -31 kernel.  The error messages I got are in the attached log file.
>
> I hope that someone on the list has a solution.
>
> Thanks In  advance.
>
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