Easiest way Disable Secure Boot And after rebooting, run the following: sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all Building and signing the kernel modules manually Generate key pair using openssl to authorize vmmon and vmnet modules:
Executing a command as another user Now the command to run commands as another user is simply: su [user] -c [command] but I couldn't get that to work for me, atleast until I installed the following package: sudo apt-get install dbus-x11