step 1 Install Wine with sudo command:apt-get install wine1.4 Results Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: wine1.4-common wine1.4-i386 Suggested packages: dosbox The following NEW packages will be installed: wine1.4 wine1.4-common wine1.4-i3860 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/20.8 MB of archives. After this operation, 104 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package wine1.4-common. (Reading database ... 170426 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking wine1.4-common (from .../wine1.4-common_1.4-0ubuntu4_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package wine1.4-i386. Unpacking wine1.4-i386 (from .../wine1.4-i386_1.4-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package wine1.4. Unpacking wine1.4 (from .../wine1.4_1.4-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Setting up wine1.4-common (1.4-0ubuntu4) ... Setting up wine1.4-i386 (1.4-0ubuntu4) ... Setting up wine1.4 (1.4-0ubuntu4) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Step 2: Install vmware-viewagent-4.5.0-293049.exe Commad: exit (log out root) Command: wine vmware-viewagent-4.5.0-293049.exe ( In the directory where the file vmware-viewagent-4.5.0-293049.exe stay) Results: fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone information in the registry for bias 300, std (d/m/y): 28/10/2012, dlt (d/m/y): 1/04/2012 fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented. fixme:msi:MsiGetMode unimplemented run mode: 7 err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"VM_MustReboot" returned 1603 (In the system's graphical window it's suggest rebbot for the installation continue) Step 3: Reboot, log in to a normal user and intall vmware-viewagent again commad: wine vmware-viewagent-4.5.0-293049.exe Results: fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone information in the registry for bias 300, std (d/m/y): 28/10/2012, dlt (d/m/y): 1/04/2012 fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented. fixme:msi:MsiGetMode unimplemented run mode: 7 err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"VM_MustReboot" returned 1603