These instructions worked as well for me with VMWare Player 12.5.9 after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS Desktop with Linux kernel 4.15, thanks!
However, I'm now prepping for further upgrade to the latest Ubuntu 21.04 (kernel 5.11), and there seems to be more problems! The distro's shared libraries are now further updated, so after manually building the vmmon.ko and vmnet.ko for the new kernel using the vmware-host-modules project, starting the VMware services successfully, and adding the soft link on libz.so.1, when I try to launch vmplayer I get the following output and then a segmentation fault: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ vmplayer Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge": /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatspi.so.0: undefined symbol: g_type_add_instance_private (vmware-modconfig:53428): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita", /usr/share/themes/Yaru/gtk-2.0/main.rc:775: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}' (vmware-modconfig:53428): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita", /usr/share/themes/Yaru/gtk-2.0/hacks.rc:28: error: invalid string constant "normal_entry", expected valid string constant Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /usr/bin/vmplayer: line 106: 53428 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Player" --icon="vmware-player" ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ I suspect there's another shared libraries that now needs to be redirected to the distro, but I'm really not clear how to figure out the dependency tree, as VMware uses this 'appLoader' application to launch it's actual binaries and masks the environment and what it is actually doing. Unfortunately, as others have mentioned, upgrading VMware to 14 or later is not an option for me, as my CPU is from before 2011 without Intel EPT / AMD NPT, and 12.5.9 happens to be the last version that works on these. So this problem is going to keep cropping up for some people for a very long time! Any help resolving the dependencies between VMware's references and/or shipped libraries and Ubuntu's latest would be greatly appreciated! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1715552 Title: VMWare does not start Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Under Ubuntu 17.10 beta VMWare 12.5.7 cannot be started: /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-modconfig: Relink `/lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/libbsd.so.0' with `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1' for IFUNC symbol `clock_gettime' Works under Ubuntu 17.04 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: linux-image-4.12.0-13-generic 4.12.0-13.14 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-13.14-generic 4.12.10 Uname: Linux 4.12.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: wolf 9336 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: wolf 9336 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Sep 7 07:53:43 2017 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=88d69bc7-ac96-42c6-bf6d-5c912964a63b InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-05 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170902) MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro12,1 ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.12.0-13-generic.efi.signed root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-4.12.0-13-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-4.12.0-13-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.167 SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 06/18/2017 dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc. dmi.bios.version: MBP121.88Z.0167.B33.1706181928 dmi.board.name: Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6 dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc. dmi.board.version: MacBookPro12,1 dmi.chassis.type: 9 dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc. dmi.chassis.version: Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP121.88Z.0167.B33.1706181928:bd06/18/2017:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro12,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-E43C1C25D4880AD6:rvrMacBookPro12,1:cvnAppleInc.:ct9:cvrMac-E43C1C25D4880AD6: dmi.product.family: MacBook Pro dmi.product.name: MacBookPro12,1 dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1715552/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
