Installing VMware workstation pro on Ubuntu 22.X (Jammy Jellyfish)

 1. Download workstation pro for vmware website

https://www.vmware.com/tw/products/workstation-pro/workstation-pro-evaluation.html

e.g.  VMware-Workstation-Full-16.2.3-19376536.x86_64.bundle

2. Download modules patch from github

https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/releases/tag/w16.2.3-k5.18

tarball

https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/archive/refs/tags/w16.2.3-k5.18.tar.gz

3. Execute by sudo

$ chmod 755 VMware-Workstation-Full-16.2.3-19376536.x86_64.bundle

$ sudo apt-get -y install build-essential

$ sudo VMware-Workstation-Full-16.2.3-19376536.x86_64.bundle

4.Execude by account

$ vmware

5. patch vmmon and vmnet

$ tar zxvf w16.2.3-k5.18.tar.gz 

$ cd  vmware-host-modules-w16.2.3-k5.18

$ tar cvf vmnet.tar  vmnet-only && sudo cp vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/

$ tar cvf vmmon.tar vmmon-only && sudo cp vmmon.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/

$ sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Execute by account

Lauch vmware from apps list

references

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/SOLVED-vmplayer-16-1-2-compile-error-on-Fedora-34/td-p/2871171

https://www.how2shout.com/linux/install-vmware-workstation-player-on-ubuntu-22-04-lts/