Installing VMWare Player / Workstation on Kali Linux

This guide is for installing VMware Player or Workstation on Kali Linux

1. First of all, download the VMware Player from 
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/5_0

2. Make the downloaded file executable by navigating to the directory where you downloaded the bundle and execute:
chmod +x VMware-Player-5.0.1-894247.x86_64.bundle

3. Open Terminal and install the packages needed by VMware Player

apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

This will install the kernel headers of your current Linux kernel version.

4.After packages are installed, start the VMware Player installer

./VMware-Player-5.0.1-894247.x86_64.bundle

This is pretty much it.

5.Launch the VMware Player by navigating to it from the main menu.

At this stage, If you got an error saying that "Kernel headers for kernel version 3.7-trunk-amd64 could not be found."

To solve this issue, do the following steps:

cd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/include/linux 

sudo ln -s ../generated/utsrelease.h

sudo ln -s ../generated/autoconf.h

sudo ln -s ../generated/uapi/linux/version.h

Thamks to Aditya Gujar