HOW TO INSTALL VMWARE WORKSTATION 10 ON UBUNTU 12.04 LTS

1) Open Terminal  and cd to the installation directory (ie. cd Downloads/vmware)

2) You need to add execution rights to the bundle for version for my particular version of Vmware Workstation 8 it is following:

chmod +x VMware-Workstation-Full-8.0.1-528992.x86_64.bundle

3) Then you need to run the installer and follow the installation steps:

sudo ./VMware-Workstation-Full-8.0.1-528992.x86_64.bundle

4) run following:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

5) finish the VMware installation:

sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

6) profit! 

Note:

if step 5 fails with “Failed to setup build environment.” you need to install correctlinux headers:

apt-cache search linux-headers-$(uname -r)

and

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)