There should be entry for VMware Player in App/Remove Applications. You need
to be showing Supported Applications and it is under System Tools.
On 07/03/2008, Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@???> wrote:
>
> A general and a specific question on VM's.
>
> I have started to run Ubuntu 7.10 on my home desktop and want to use a VM
> as a "sandbox" for browsing the internet. Currently I use Firefox with
> NoScript to avoid possible scripting malware, but I find myself allowing
> scripting a lot as most sites seem to use it. I have used VMware Player in
> Windows with their "Browser Appliance" (runs Ubuntu as guest OS).
>
> General question: is VMWare Player appropriate here or is there a
> different VM package which I should try?
>
> The sort of facilities I would like are
> suspend and resume at will
> switch between working in and out of VM with mouse / keyboard
> copy and paste text between browser and host text editor
> import / export files between host OS and VM
>
> Specific question: has anyone got VMware Player to install under Ubuntu
> 7.10? If so, how to do it?
>
> I have downloaded and run through the install script, but am having
> trouble with vmware-config.pl. It gets to "None of the pre-built vmmon
> modules for VMware Player is suitable for your kernel. .." and tries to
> build it, but doesn't find "linux/version.h" with a suggestion that I might
> want to recompile my kernel. I asked on the VMware forums but I got a one
> line response that I need to recompile the kernel. However I don't
> understand how compiling a kernel can generate a header file, which I
> understand is source code - I suppose there may be some preprocessing which
> generates headers (... probably just displaying my ignorance). Mixing
> metaphors, I don't want to pick up a sledgehammer which may be taking me
> down a blind alley. In any event, Ubuntu is not one of the supported
> distros, so this may all be in vain. Any suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Russell
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