VMWare has a habitual problem with NOT being usable in Ubuntu until several months after a release. I found a fix here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/130937/how-do-i-install-vmware-player-4-0-3. The bottom line is here: I based this on the instructions I found here: vmware player compile issue. To boil it down to the simplest steps: Download this tarball: http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vmware802fixlinux320.tar.gz Extract the…