nerochiaro@nerobox:~$ sudo apt-get install vmware-player Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: vmware-player-kernel-modules The following NEW packages will be installed: vmware-player vmware-player-kernel-modules 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 65 not upgraded. Need to get 11.8MB of archives. After unpacking 32.0MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse vmware-player-kernel-modules 2.6.15.10-6 [6762B] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse vmware-player 1.0.1-4 [11.8MB] Fetched 11.8MB in 53s (222kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package vmware-player-kernel-modules. (Reading database ... 147307 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking vmware-player-kernel-modules (from .../vmware-player-kernel-modules_2.6.15.10-6_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package vmware-player. Unpacking vmware-player (from .../vmware-player_1.0.1-4_i386.deb) ... Setting up vmware-player-kernel-modules (2.6.15.10-6) ... Setting up vmware-player (1.0.1-4) ... Now configuring VMware Player. (This may take some time...) Configuring a bridged network for vmnet0. Configuring a NAT network for vmnet8. Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)... The subnet 192.168.235.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused. Configuring a host-only network for vmnet1. Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)... The subnet 172.16.86.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused. Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor failed Virtual ethernet failed Module vmnet is not loaded. Please verify that it is loaded before running this script. invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: vmware-player E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)