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I have been working on this problem for a while now and can't seem to find a solution anywhere.

I've installed VMWare Player 5.0.4 for Linux 64-bit on my machine running Ubuntu 15.10. Installation was successful, but when I try to run it says it needs to compile and load modules into the running kernel. That's fine, so I click install, and get an error saying:

Unable to start services. See log file xxx.log for details

I check the log, which says:

Failed to build vmnet. Failed to execute the build command

Did some searching and apparently it is because of the kernel version so I followed the steps here to patch vmnet sources.

After trying that, I get failure with the following output:

scripts/Makefile.build:258: recipe for target '/tmp/modconfig-aKDAPX/vmnet-only/netif.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-aKDAPX/vmnet-only/netif.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Makefile:1398: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/modconfig-aKDAPX/vmnet-only' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig-aKDAPX/vmnet-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-18-generic'
Makefile:130: recipe for target 'vmnet.ko' failed
make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/tmp/modconfig-aKDAPX/vmnet-only'
Unable to install all modules.  See log for details.

Not sure where this 'log' is that it wants me to look at...

Any help is appreciated, I really need to get this working.

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  • Why not use KVM?
    – Panther
    Nov 12, 2015 at 0:35
  • I was using KVM, but I am running a project where I need to ping, and for some reason it wouldn't work. I could scp to and from the guest, as well as download files using wget, etc... but pinging would give me a "bad address" error.
    – Ryan McClure
    Nov 12, 2015 at 0:37

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VMPlayer 5 is really, really old. Current version is 12. You will be well served by downloading the current version, do you need a link to the correct address.

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  • I was told to use this version for a project, and I am guessing it is because it is free. I'll try 12 out to see if it works any better.
    – Ryan McClure
    Nov 12, 2015 at 0:20
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    The only problem with 12, is an environmental variable which needs to be set in the wrapper that starts VMPlayer - this answer talks about that. VMPlayer can be downloaded from here
    – Charles Green
    Nov 12, 2015 at 0:23

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