VMware Workstation Player can easily be installed by downloading the relevant bundle and then running as root eg sudo sh VMware-Player-15.5.6-16341506.x86_64.bundle on a an vmplayer is useful for running a single VM guest. It does emulate various hardware devices like network, graphics and audio cards. VMware is not a true emulator, it doesn't emulate a CPU like Bochs does, it wraps CPU commands around. You can use it for example to convert your physical installations or other virtual machines types to a VMware virtual environment.Ĭommercial products like VMware Workstation Pro is available for Linux. VMware vCenter Converter is zero-cost and allows you to convert your physical OS to a virtual environment OS. Both Windows and a Linux versions are available.įor Free Software alternatives see our SystemVirtualization section. It allows you to run any x86 compatible OS in a kind of 'sandbox' - inside the VMware virtual machine you can run other operating systems like Windows, FreeBSD or some other version of Linux. I'm very depend on using VMware, and I don't know whats going on with it but this was working a lot better before I upgraded from Buster to Bullseye.Ĭould anyone please assist me with this problem? I'm open to suggestions because I don't know where else to turn to.VMware is a proprietary and commercial PC virtualization solution running on amd64 compatible CPUs ( supported CPUs), since version 11. Now I'm pulling my hair out trying to fix what I should have never messed with from the start. I have also tried uninstalling VMware Workstation 16 entirely to reinstall the previous version I had originally started with (cause I had that bundle stored away on a flash drive) only to be stuck with the same problems I started with when I would reinstall the product Make: Leaving directory '/home/ric21000/vmware-host-modules/vmmon-only' /include/compat_autoconf.h:38:13: fatal error: generated/autoconf.h: No such file or directoryĬc1: error: code model kernel does not support PIC mode include/compat_autoconf.h:38:13: fatal error: generated/autoconf.h: No such file or directory Make: Entering directory '/home/ric21000/vmware-host-modules/vmmon-only'

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