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I tried to run vmware.exe through Wine but I got a weird empty error message box and the application did not run:

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    Why are you trying to run a Windows version of VMware with Wine? VMware has a Linux version... https://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_install_linux.html – jitter Apr 14 '21 at 22:40
  • The reason I want to run the Windows version is that the Linux version does not run because I could not get gcc to work on VMware: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1331438/i-cant-use-vmware-on-ubuntu – lulupuppy Apr 14 '21 at 23:01
  • Why doesn't gcc work? – jitter Apr 14 '21 at 23:03
  • GCC does not work because VMware said a compatible version of GCC was not found when I entered the location /usr/bin/gcc – lulupuppy Apr 14 '21 at 23:07
  • @lulupuppy which Ubuntu version are you using? And which VMware version? Vmware does not run within Wine and never will because it requires a lot of system level services. – Thomas Ward Apr 14 '21 at 23:10
  • I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and VMware 16. But can very early versions of VMware run in Wine? – lulupuppy Apr 14 '21 at 23:12
  • @lulupuppy No, because VMware still has system kernel services. Ubuntu 16.04 is tool old to run VMware 16, you'll need to upgrade to 18.04 or newer for a newer gcc version. Or find an installer for VMware 12 - 14 because I believe those are old enough to run in Linux natively. Also keep in mind that Ubuntu 16.04 goes past end of standard support in less than a month (and at that point will be past support here on Ask Ubuntu), so I would advise looking to upgrade your system to 18.04 sooner than later. – Thomas Ward Apr 15 '21 at 00:05
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    Try virtualbox instead. It is available in the Ubuntu's official repositories. – Archisman Panigrahi Apr 15 '21 at 04:56
  • I already tried to install virtualbox and this is what happened: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1331246/i-never-can-start-any-virtual-machine-in-virtualbox – lulupuppy Apr 15 '21 at 16:16

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