title: VMware Player after a kernel update link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/vmware-player-after-a-kernel-update/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 116 created: 2010/10/30 01:05:05 created_gmt: 2010/10/30 01:05:05 comment_status: open post_name: vmware-player-after-a-kernel-update status: publish post_type: post

VMware Player after a kernel update

After performing a kernel update any existing install of VMware Player will fail because it’s kernel module needs to be recompiled.

To deal with this open a terminal, su to root and run the following command:

vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

Note that if you try launching VMware Player before doing this a gui dialog will pop up and invite you to recompile kernel support. The one time I tried this it ended up throwing an error (no doubt due to the fact I was running it as an unprivileged user rather than root), so it’s now my practice to use the console command.

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