VMware Player is a very basic hypervisor program. You can create new virtual machines, open existing virtual machines and many more. Now, type in your login password and click on Authenticate. If you want to use VMware Player 15 for commercial use, then you will have to buy a license from VMware, select Enter a license key to allow commercial use and type in the license key there. If you want to use VMware Player for non-commercial purpose, then select Use VMware Player 15 for free for non-commercial use. If you want to join VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP), then select Yes. If you want VMware Player to check for updates every time you start VMware Player, select Yes. Now, select I accept the terms in the license agreement and click on Next to accept the VMware OVF Tool component for Linux End User License Agreement (EULA). Now, select I accept the terms in the license agreement and click on Next to accept the VMware Player End User License Agreement (EULA). Now, type in your login password and press Authenticate. The first time you run VMware Player, you may see the following message. Once VMware Player 15 is installed, you can start VMware Player from the Application Menu of CentOS 8. The installer should start installing VMware Player 15.Īt this point, VMware Player 15 should be installed.

Once VMware Player 15 installer is downloaded, navigate to the ~/Downloads directory of your computer as follows: Your browser should start downloading VMware Player 15 installer file. Your browser should prompt you to save the VMware Player 15 installer file. Now, click on the Download button for VMware Workstation Player for Linux 64-bit as marked in the screenshot below.

Once the page loads, click on Download Now. To download VMware Player, first, visit the official website of VMware Player. But, you can easily download VMware Player from the official website of VMware and install it on CentOS 8. VMware Player is not available in the official package repository of CentOS 8. Linux kernel headers and elfutils-libelf-devel packages should be installed. To confirm the installation, press Y and then press. $ sudo dnf install kernel-headers-$ ( uname -r ) elfutils-libelf-devel

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