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  1. Bug #1715552
  2. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 1715552

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Chris Parker (cparke) wrote :

Just an FYI - I finally figured out a way to get the old VMware-Player to start up on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. The crash (segmentation fault) mentioned above oddly does *not* happen if you launch VMware like this instead:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer

That's it! The icon can be made to work too if you edit the 'vmware-player.desktop' file in /usr/share/applications to also invoke the application using the full path to the appLoader application.

I did not go back and check this on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but I expect that it is the same issue and resolution there.