VMware Workstation Dockerized

build.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -e

docker build -t vmware .

set +e
docker kill vmware-workstation > /dev/null
docker rm vmware-workstation > /dev/null
set -e

docker run -ti --net=host --privileged --cap-add=ALL \
  --name vmware-workstation \
  -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY \
  -e EXEC_UID=$(id -u) \
  -v /home/$(whoami)/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority \
  -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
  -v /etc/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro \
  -v /lib/modules:/lib/modules \
  -v /usr/src:/usr/src \
  -v $(ls -d /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-*):$(ls -d /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-*) \
  -v /home/$(whoami):/home/$(whoami) \
  vmware

Dockerfile

FROM debian:9

RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install dbus-x11 zenity libnotify-cil-dev kmod build-essential gksu
#RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install dbus-x11 zenity xterm firefox nano libnotify-cil-dev

ADD VMware-Workstation-Full-12.5.7-5813279.x86_64.bundle .
RUN ./VMware-Workstation-Full-12.5.7-5813279.x86_64.bundle --eulas-agreed --required
RUN rm VMware-Workstation-Full-12.5.7-5813279.x86_64.bundle

ADD entrypoint.sh /root/entrypoint.sh
RUN chmod +x /root/entrypoint.sh

RUN apt-get -y install python2.7
#RUN ln -s $(which python2.7) /usr/bin/python2
ADD https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py /root/get-pip.py
RUN python2.7 /root/get-pip.py
RUN python2.7 -m pip install six

ADD unlocker /root/unlocker
RUN cd /root/unlocker && bash /root/unlocker/lnx-install.sh
RUN mv /root/unlocker/tools /usr/share/vmware_tools && chmod 555 /usr/share/vmware_tools && chmod 444 /usr/share/vmware_tools/*

ENTRYPOINT ["bash", "/root/entrypoint.sh"]
#ENTRYPOINT ["bash"]

entrypoint.sh

#!/bin/bash

vmware_check_file=.vmware_installed

if [ ! -f $vmware_check_file ]; then
  vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
  touch $vmware_check_file

  echo "root:root" | chpasswd
  zenity --info --text="Enter a license key. If asked for a root password, type \"root\"."
else
  service vmware start
fi

su $(id -nu $EXEC_UID) -c vmware

start.sh

#!/bin/sh

docker start vmware-workstation