Cloning is not Supported with VMware WS version 9!?

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Here is a super super quick post to hopefully help out a fellow internet friend….

A while back I was using VMware Workstation to build Packer images for some ASAv devices. I had a helluva time getting things rolling, and the interwebs didn’t provide easy answers. I was using VMware Workstation version 14, but was getting the “Cloning is not supported with VMware WS version 9 Please use VMware WS version 10”… ummmm? What gives!? Last I checked 14 is a way bigger number than 9…. like at least 5 bigger! And bigger numbers are better right?? Anyway the “fix” for me was to install the following packages:

  • x11-common
  • libxtst6
  • libxi6
  • libxinerama-dev
  • libxcursor-dev

After installing these things started working as expected. For what its worth this was running on Ubuntu 17.10 Server.