{"id":627,"date":"2018-02-14T20:53:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2018-02-14T20:53:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:23:21","slug":"vmware-workstation-12-pro-on-linux-mint-18-3-sylvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"VMware Workstation 12 Pro on Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mental note \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>VMware Workstation 12 Pro on Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia does not install correctly. This apparently is not a Mint issue so much as kernel\u00a04.13.x issue.<\/p>\n<p>Spent some time in Google University trying to figure it out (maybe I AM getting old&#8230; \ud83d\ude41 ).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the solution can be found here:\u00a0https:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/message\/2745542#2745542<\/p>\n<p>ukos0vm provides the perfect fix:<\/p>\n<section>\n<div class=\"jive-rendered-content\">\n<p>The scripts on\u00a0<a class=\"jive-link-external-small\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\" rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"&amp;lpos=apps_scodevmw : 142\">https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules<\/a>\u00a0are already very straight forward. If it is not simple enough, try the\u00a0<a class=\"jive-link-external-small\" href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/ukos-git\/e656c47025dd55b4836a980a34811637\" rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"&amp;lpos=apps_scodevmw : 143\">following script from my gist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre>cd ~\/Downloads\r\n\r\nwget\u00a0<a class=\"jive-link-external-small\" href=\"https:\/\/gist.githubusercontent.com\/ukos-git\/e656c47025dd55b4836a980a34811637\/raw\/21533798c550a12ba6bf2feedf63f24324ed3713\/patch-vmware12.sh\" rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"&amp;lpos=apps_scodevmw : 143\">https:\/\/gist.githubusercontent.com\/ukos-git\/e656c47025dd55b4836a980a34811637\/raw\/21533798c550a12ba6bf2feedf63f24324ed3713\/patch-vmware12.sh<\/a>\r\n\r\nsudo bash .\/patch-vmware12.sh<\/pre>\n<p>Thank you\u00a0ukos0vm!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental note \ud83d\ude42 VMware Workstation 12 Pro on Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia does not install correctly. This apparently is not a Mint issue so much as kernel\u00a04.13.x issue. Spent some time in Google University trying to figure it out (maybe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=627\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}