I've decided to "return" to use VMware Workstation because I used Oracle VirtualBox for some years and this is a time for changes! Ok, the main reason is that I can connect to vCenter by VMware Workstation 😉
An installation of VMware Workstation is pretty easy but it didn't want to work 🙂 I got two problems during the installation process on Fedora 20:
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Of course the canberra package was installed but the path to lib was not defined correctly so the installator was not able to find the lib. To solve the problem please:
Please create file (as root) /etc/ld.so.conf.d/gtk2.conf and add line: /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/modules
sudo touch /etc/ld.so.conf.d/gtk2.conf
sudo echo /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/modules >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/gtk2.conf
Run as root: ldconfig
sudo /sbin/ldconfig
The second problem was that the installation failed (unsuccessful) even I accepted EULA:
In the installation log (/var/log/vmware-installer) I could find the following error:
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\u201c’ in position 428: ordinal not in range(128)
The problem is related to encoding and to solve it you have to run the following command before running the VMware Workstation installer:
export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8