Solve : install vmware player on ubuntu?

1.	Solve : install vmware player on ubuntu?
Answer» i (FINALLY) got ubuntu running on my pc... thanks to VMWARE player but now i want vmware player ON linux but i completely, ABSOLUTELY, indefinately frogot how to do it... some ONE please explain dont call me a newb just a person with a bad memory.Thanks to VMW?! Does that mean you're trying to get a virtual machine, in a virtual machine? And, did you check the VMWare player site?! Here. It's free for personal use.erm whoops mistyped that i ment that i had installed it thanks to me learning some bits and bobs from vmware (now ubuntu is a fully operational system on a separate partition) and i want to install vmware inside of ubuntuQuote from: liambiscuit on December 30, 2007, 07:40:34 PM erm whoops mistyped that i ment that i had installed it thanks to me learning some bits and bobs from vmware (now ubuntu is a fully operational system on a separate partition) and i want to install vmware inside of ubuntu Yeah, and you can download it from the aforementioned site.but vmware player isnt what i want i want to be able to run a guest os inside of ubuntu... locally which they no longer support in the free version...Quote from: liambiscuit on December 31, 2007, 12:29:55 PM but vmware player isnt what i want i want to be able to run a guest os inside of ubuntu... locally which they no longer support in the free version... So something like MS's Virtual PC, but for Linux?somthing like virtual box but it wouldnt let me get it from the add apps thing... i have the .tar on my desktop but dont know how to manually install somthing from sorceYou could always use APT to install it. Type 'sudo apt-get install virtualbox' in the terminal (I think that's what it's named, ANYWAY).

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i (FINALLY) got ubuntu running on my pc... thanks to VMWARE player but now i want vmware player ON linux but i completely, ABSOLUTELY, indefinately frogot how to do it... some ONE please explain

dont call me a newb
just a person with a bad memory.Thanks to VMW?! Does that mean you're trying to get a virtual machine, in a virtual machine?

And, did you check the VMWare player site?!

Here.

It's free for personal use.erm whoops mistyped that i ment that i had installed it thanks to me learning some bits and bobs from vmware (now ubuntu is a fully operational system on a separate partition) and i want to install vmware inside of ubuntuQuote from: liambiscuit on December 30, 2007, 07:40:34 PM

erm whoops mistyped that i ment that i had installed it thanks to me learning some bits and bobs from vmware (now ubuntu is a fully operational system on a separate partition) and i want to install vmware inside of ubuntu

Yeah, and you can download it from the aforementioned site.but vmware player isnt what i want i want to be able to run a guest os inside of ubuntu... locally which they no longer support in the free version...Quote from: liambiscuit on December 31, 2007, 12:29:55 PM

but vmware player isnt what i want i want to be able to run a guest os inside of ubuntu... locally which they no longer support in the free version...

So something like MS's Virtual PC, but for Linux?somthing like virtual box but it wouldnt let me get it from the add apps thing... i have the .tar on my desktop but dont know how to manually install somthing from sorceYou could always use APT to install it.

Type 'sudo apt-get install virtualbox' in the terminal (I think that's what it's named, ANYWAY).

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