WINDOWS ON LINUX.........INSTALLING VMWARE PLAYER @ UBUNTU

Do u love your ubuntu and can't live without it but still need to use Windows Programs?


Linux has become very user friendly but still majority applications runs on Windows.So you can run windows in your ubuntu with the help of vmware palyer.


Dual booting is also an option but rebooting system again and again for switching between OS is not a good option. Here this concept of vertualization takes credit.


VMware Player allows you to run entire operating systems in a virtual machine, which runs on top of Ubuntu or Windows. To the guest operating system (the one running inside the virtual machine), it appears as though it were running on its own PC. The host operating system runs the VMware Player, which provides the guest with things like network access. 


Let us start with installing vmware palyer-------


Download vmware palyer from its official site
www.vmware.com › VMware Player
you need to register first

Choose 32bit or 64bit installer according to your OS Architecture


After downloading open terminal and run the following command to install some packages needed by vmware player

 sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`


Now make it executable by changing its permissions by going to properties of setup then select permission tab and finally check "Allow executing file as a program".

We can start Vmware installation as follows:


 gksudo bash ./VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle

This will start GUI installation wizard of Vmware Player

 
Follow the on screen instructions and you are done with installation.

Here you can create virtual machine of any OS you want.