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You may notice when you upgrade to 9.04, your VMware Workstation no longer works. You start it, it seems to be loading fine – but then it just vanishes! (Oh no!)

In order to get VMware workstation working again in ubuntu 9.04 you’re going to rebuild it. (Re-installing the old fashioned way doesn’t work – but don’t worry, this is quicker and easier!)

First remove the old binary (you can just rename it as well if you prefer)

sudo rm -Rf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary

sudo mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old

Now just run the following to rebuild VMware

sudo vmware-modconfig –console –install-all

You should now have a fully functional vmware workstation inside of ubuntu 9.04 jaunty.