Note to myself Installing VMware Workstation 10 on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)
Misc notes about life w/ VMware Workstation 10
Today I installed VMware Workstation 10 to our server, for testing.
After installation, I tried to start VMware: (I’m using X11 port
forwarding, ie. ssh -X myuser@ourserver)
vmware
Pop-up asking for license or e-mail address appeared, I tried to start trial. Got this message:
Failed to register license. This may be because the root password is
required to register your license. Please contact a system
administrator with any questions.
Googling didn’t provide answers. Running sudo vmware didn’t help. But,
then I guessed what was the problem.
apt-get install gksu
System didn’t have GUI for su[do] installed. After that everything worked perfectly. Ie. running
vmware
succeeded.
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