VMware Workstation Player is a desktop virtualization application that is available for free for personal use. It is available for download from the VMware website. (:copyright: marketing department, VMware :smirk:)
Unfortunately, this product is not available as a Debian or RPM package. The following approach allows installing the Player using Puppet:
$vmware_version = '14.0.0-6661328'
$vmware_package = "VMware-Player-${vmware_version}.x86_64.bundle"
$vmware_baseurl = 'https://download3.vmware.com/software/player/file'
$vmware_installer = "/tmp/${vmware_package}"
$vmware_install_cmd = "${vmware_installer} --console --eulas-agreed --required"
$vmware_uninstall_cmd = "${vmware_installer} --uninstall-product=vmware-player --required"
file { $vmware_installer:
source => "${vmware_baseurl}/${vmware_package}",
owner => 'root',
group => 'root',
mode => '0755',
}
-> exec { $vmware_install_cmd:
path => ['/usr/sbin', '/usr/bin', '/sbin', '/bin'],
# NOTE: This will make it difficult to upgrade to a newer version
# (VMware-Player will need to be uninstalled prior to upgrade)
creates => '/usr/bin/vmplayer',
}
Should I add this to the virtualization section with a PR?
It would require some kind of cleanup to ensure uninstalling and upgrading is possible, and to avoid that the package is downloaded and installed in continuation.
bittner
commented
6 years ago
VMware Workstation Player is a desktop virtualization application that is available for free for personal use. It is available for download from the VMware website. (:copyright: marketing department, VMware :smirk:)
Unfortunately, this product is not available as a Debian or RPM package. The following approach allows installing the Player using Puppet:
Should I add this to the virtualization section with a PR?
It would require some kind of cleanup to ensure uninstalling and upgrading is possible, and to avoid that the package is downloaded and installed in continuation.