Player is already included with workstation. However, a new installation will likely not work. Just copy the main vmware player folder to some other alternative place (if you have it installed on an other machine). Or just unpack the installer and grab the files. Don't know how it will behave with mixing versions though. After all, the necessary services are already installed by workstation. At least on windows hosts it could be possible with some tweaking.
I have tried about 7 images of Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion on VMWare Workstation 8 and 9, and also tried to change almost all settings, but I cannot run it in any way. It shows grey screen with notice "VMWARE" and it's all, it seems there is nothing to be run, even it doesn't show the apple logo. It makes me mad for over 10 days, and I have no idea what else to do with this. I think, that the problem is in my hardware, because same image with same vmware is working very well on my HP probook 4530s.
The reason you are getting this error is because you can't run mac os x in vmware without using a side program to hack the source code of vmware and change stuff. It is also against the apple Terms of Service to run the mac os x operating system outside of an apple computer.
I need to convert my old XP into a virtual machine (p2v). I've used disk2vhd to create the virtual hard drive, but VMware couldn't use that file. After some more researches I've read that I should first use Virtual PC to create the virtual machine and only then convert it with VMware workstation.
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