VMware Workstation 12 Working with Fedora 23 !!

As the following instruction we can start VMware workstation 12/12.1 On the Fedora 23.

Login as root first.

$ sudo su -

Force rebuild of VMWare modules:

# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all  


Replace the vmware glib version with the fedora version:

# cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib

# for mylib in $(ls /usr/lib64/*4600*); do /bin/cp -afv $mylib $(basename $mylib.4600.1 )/$(basename $mylib .4600.1 ); done

This basically does the following:

# pwd
/usr/lib/vmware/lib
# /bin/cp -afv /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0.4600.1 libgio-2.0.so.0/libgio-2.0.so.0
# /bin/cp -afv /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.4600.1 libglib-2.0.so.0/libglib-2.0.so.0
# /bin/cp -afv /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4600.1 libgmodule-2.0.so.0/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
# /bin/cp -afv /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.4600.1 libgobject-2.0.so.0/libgobject-2.0.so.0
# /bin/cp -afv /usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so.0.4600.1 libgthread-2.0.so.0/libgthread-2.0.so.0


Start VMware or VMplayer:

$ VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=force vmware
or:
$ VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=force vmplayer



For ease of use/convenience, you might also want to do this:

# cd /usr/bin/
# mv -iv vmplayer vmplayer.bin
# mv -iv vmware vmware.bin

Then create two scripts replacing the previous scripts/tools:
$ cat /usr/bin/vmplayer
#!/bin/bash
export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=force
/usr/bin/vmplayer.bin $*

$ cat /usr/bin/vmware
#!/bin/bash
export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=force
/usr/bin/vmware.bin $*

Source is:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1278896

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