If going BACK a release remember to UNINSTALL VMware tools on the GUEST. at the popup screen choose delete configuration too so you can re-install again from scratch the previous version.

Remember also it's easy to go back a release of VMware simply as root /usr/bin/VMware-installer -u then product name e.g VMWare-workstation or whatever.

UNITY mode though in W10 and workstation 11 or vmplayer 7 still is an issue -it sort of works - same if using a WINDOWS HOST too. If you have the wrong kernel headers VMware won't start properly. Just a tiny smidgen of extra work rather than straight out of the box but IMO well worth the effort.Įnsure when installing vmware on Linux that you are using the CORRECT kernel headers whatever Linux system you are running - get the name of the kernel you are using with the command (as root / sudo) uname -r. The extra repositories in CENTOS are called EPEL - plenty of documentation though so it's not difficult. I used to be an OPENSUSE user but have totally switched to CENTOS now - and not sorry I did.

It's possibly not quite so leading edge as Linux Mint but IMO that's an advantage and it has long term support till 2023. You will need to add the repositories for multi-media (VLC) and set up your desktop GUI - I use KDE so a little bit more work but really worth it in the long run. About 80 - 90 % of the worlds servers run on Red Hat. CENTOS 7 is based to be the free edition of RED HAT server 7 (and Red Hat is now managing CENTOS too) - so you get a really enterprise strength version of Linux. If you are prepared to do a little work CENTOS 7 works perfectly with both vmplayer rel 6 and 7.

Linux Mint I found had some issues with VMware and W10 as GUEST.

How to use virtualbox on linux mint