I am a newbie to VMPlayer and Ubuntu. I have downloaded the VMPlayer version 5.x and ubuntu iso file and the install completes but the GUI is not launching ,the unity mode is not working and when I try to installVMwareTools it gives me the message saying "make sure you are logged in to guest operating system.Mount the virtual CD drive in guest , launch a terminal and use tar to uncompress installer".
Any suggestions? I have tried to do the same with VMPLayer 6.x as well no luck. Some forums I saw that it will automatically launch a firefox nothing happens in my case. Also this the error in the log
013-10-11T22:43:59.398-04:00| vcpu-0| I120: TOOLS INSTALL 'C:\Program Files\linux.iso' not present or not readable
2013-10-11T22:43:59.399-04:00| vcpu-0| I120: Msg_Post: Warning
2013-10-11T22:43:59.399-04:00| vcpu-0| I120: [msg.tools.inaccessible] Unable to install VMware Tools. An error occurred while trying to access image file "C:\Program Files\linux.iso" needed to install VMware Tools: The system cannot find the file specified.
2013-10-11T22:43:59.399-04:00| vcpu-0| I120+ If your product shipped with the VMware Tools package, reinstall VMware Player, then try again to install the VMware Tools package in the virtual machine.