Just set up vmplayer under a new partition of 14.04 LTS Ubuntu (host) and Win 10 (guest). If you do then the VM won't start (config error !!). Make sure that these lines are not duplicated - you might have one of these already in the config. In the config file add mks.enable3d="TRUE" and mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers="TRUE" (Driconf doesn't exist on centos but needed on Ubuntu). Set Guest USB to use USB2 if problems with USB devices (removing / recognizing).įinally don't forget you CAN get 3D to work as well as hardware graphics acceleration - install packages libtxc_dxtn (enables S3TC) and driconf.
Note also depending on your Linux distro - remove package open vmware tools - you don't need it any more and it can hose up the VMware tools installation on your Guest. If going BACK a release remember to UNINSTALL VMware tools on the GUEST. at the popup screen choose delete configuration too so you can re-install again from scratch the previous version. Remember also it's easy to go back a release of VMware simply as root /usr/bin/VMware-installer -u then product name e.g VMWare-workstation or whatever.
UNITY mode though in W10 and workstation 11 or vmplayer 7 still is an issue -it sort of works - same if using a WINDOWS HOST too. If you have the wrong kernel headers VMware won't start properly. Just a tiny smidgen of extra work rather than straight out of the box but IMO well worth the effort.Įnsure when installing vmware on Linux that you are using the CORRECT kernel headers whatever Linux system you are running - get the name of the kernel you are using with the command (as root / sudo) uname -r.
The extra repositories in CENTOS are called EPEL - plenty of documentation though so it's not difficult. I used to be an OPENSUSE user but have totally switched to CENTOS now - and not sorry I did. It's possibly not quite so leading edge as Linux Mint but IMO that's an advantage and it has long term support till 2023. You will need to add the repositories for multi-media (VLC) and set up your desktop GUI - I use KDE so a little bit more work but really worth it in the long run. About 80 - 90 % of the worlds servers run on Red Hat. CENTOS 7 is based to be the free edition of RED HAT server 7 (and Red Hat is now managing CENTOS too) - so you get a really enterprise strength version of Linux. If you are prepared to do a little work CENTOS 7 works perfectly with both vmplayer rel 6 and 7. Linux Mint I found had some issues with VMware and W10 as GUEST.
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