CentOS 7 Installation VMware WORKSTATION12

Compared to Virtualbox,vmware because of the closed-source characteristics, stability and compatibility are not as good as the former, but because the author of the previous virtual machines are using VMware, so still try to install the VMware

First, set the motherboard security boot option to OFF

Installation is simple, first download the current vmware-workstation-full-12.0.1-3160714.x86_64.bundle, and then

# sh./vmware-workstation-full-12.0.1-3160714.x86_64.bundle

The installation process was smooth, except for the GTK error on the start command line, but when loading a previously created virtual machine file, the following prompt appears:

The author tried four or five methods, re-installed two times did not succeed, helpless under had to try to install VirtualBox, hope to get what inspired

However VirtualBox and VMware, are able to install but not run, but VirtualBox provides detailed error numbers as shown below, give us a clue

Most of the information on the web is for the VirtualBox 4.X version, and I am 5. x version, so the error message slightly different, but through the query finally learned that the problem and the kernel, and I found the same artifact, that is dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module support)

Install the artifact using the following statement, which requires a Epel source installed beforehand

#yum Install dkms

When the installation is complete, the reinstallation of VMware works