VMware does not start…
I recently made an installation of VMware workstation on ubuntu and I do not use it very regularly but I noticed that almost everytime I get around to using it, the software just does not start. I attempt to launch the application and it shows up in the task bar for a few seconds and then disappears. The times it has happened I have run the vmware-config.pl utility and that seems to fix everything.. so I started wondering what that is all about and after some digging I came across reasons to reconfigure vmware. One of them says if you upgrade the host operating system kernel then you are likely to require a restart. I have been downloading some updates for Ubuntu but none of them were to the kernel as far as I can tell. Strange….