How to Install VMware Player in UBUNTU 14.04 LTS

step 1:

download vmware player freely from vmware official site.

DOWNLOAD VMWARE PLAYER FREE

setp 2:

open the terminal using (ctrl + alt + t). move to the directory where vmware player downloaded. mostly it will available in Download directory.

step 3:

Check the downloaded file check sum with checksum value available in vmware site.

vmware website give checksum

• BINARY DETAILSContains VMware Player for Linux 64-bit operating systems.
• FILE NAMEVMware-Player-6.0.3-1895310.x86_64.bundle
• BUILD NUMBER1895310
• RELEASE DATE2014-07-01
• CHECKSUMSMD5SUM: 73113d30ddb222e1a690d23ac569e462
  SHA1SUM: c6576184a76aa65c69313d973c551ddac432408e

Check the md5 check sum using md5sum command

sujin@sujin:~/Installers$ md5sum VMware-Player-6.0.3-1895310.x86_64.bundle
73113d30ddb222e1a690d23ac569e462  VMware-Player-6.0.3-1895310.x86_64.bundle



In my case both are same. so i can make sure that it was downloaded successfully.


Step 4:

give the executable permission to the file

sujin@sujin:~/Installers$ chmod +x VMware-Player-6.0.3-1895310.x86_64.bundle


Step 5:

Start the installation

sujin@sujin:~/Installers$ sudo ./VMware-Player-6.0.3-1895310.x86_64.bundle

Step 6:

It will open the GUI to install vmware. skip if it ask license during installation

ENJOY!