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Installing VMWare Player / Workstation on Kali Linux

This guide is for installing VMware Player or Workstation on Kali Linux. Although this is a simple task, I faced an issue with the kernel headers when launching VMware Player, hence this blog post. I did these steps with VMware Player but same steps can be followed for Workstation. 1. First of all, download the VMware Player from  https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/5_0 2. Make the downloaded file executable by navigating to the directory where you downloaded the bundle and execute: chmod +x VMware-Player-5.0.1-894247.x86_64.bundle 3. Open Terminal and install the packages needed by VMware Player apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` This will install the kernel headers of your current Linux kernel version. 4.After packages are installed, start the VMware Player installer ./VMware-Player-5.0.1-894247.x86_64.bundle This is pretty much it. 5.Launch the VMware Player by navigating to it from the main menu.