Unable to configure VMWare on Ubuntu

Published on April 13th, 2007 in Linux, Other, Ubuntu

While trying to install and configure VMWare Workstation on my new Ubuntu Desktop, i received the following error message:

“None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)?”

It seemed like I didn’t have the headers for my current kernel installed. A short “ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)” quickly did the trick and I was able to successfully complete the configuration.

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