VMWare Workstation 6.5.3 Installer hangs

31 March 2010

The installation of VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.i386.bundle at Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 hangs. Therefore do

pre(terminal). $ sudo -i $ while true; do killall -9 vmware-modconfig-console; sleep 1; done

In a second console do

pre(terminal). $ sudo ./VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.x86_64.bundle –ignore-errors

If you get some errors, that you do not have sufficient rights, do

pre(terminal). $ sudo rm /etc/vmware/not_configured $ sudo vmware-modconfig –console –install-all $ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware restart

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VMWare Workstation 6.5.3 Installer hangs