How To Install VMWare Player On Ubuntu 16.04

VMware Workstation Player 12.5

VMware Workstation Player 12.5 has been released with various bug fixes and various issues resolved:

• A Linux host with kernel 4.6 fails to launch Workstation because the vmmon and vmnet drivers are not built successfully. This issue is resolved.
• If you configure Revert to snapshot when a VM is powered off from Options-> Snapshots, the VM actually reverts to a snapshot when suspended. This issue is resolved.
• VMware Workstation Player window does not close after the VM is powered off
• Unable to install VMware Tools in FreeBSD 10.3 guest OS
• Unable to launch Workstation Player on Fedora 23 host
• USB Ethernet adapter fails to connect to the VM
• VMware Workstation Player throws Runtime Error when you disconnect Surface Camera from a VM
• Incorrect resolution in Workstation Player
• VMware Workstation Player cannot boot virtual machines on a 64-bit Braswell N3150 processor
• On the Ubuntu 15.10 and later versions guest operating system, replacing open-vm-tools with the bundled VMware Tools version, might cause VMware Tools to work improperly

Install VMWare Player on Ubuntu

Run the following commands in Terminal to install VMware Workstation Player 12.5 on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives:

mkdir ~/vmware
cd ~/vmware
wget -c https://download3.vmware.com/software/player/file/VMware-Player-12.5.0-4352439.x86_64.bundle
sudo chmod u+x VMware-Player-12.5.0-4352439.x86_64.bundle
sudo ./VMware-Player-12.5.0-4352439.x86_64.bundle

As soon as the installer starts, please follow on screen instructions to complete the installation.