mitchellh/packer — pull request #190 by qur (2013-07-16 22:16:06+00:00)
Title: Also support VMware Player 5 (for Linux)

The modern version of Player is fully capable of supporting packer. Though you do need to install the optional VIX package to get vmrun.

vmware-vdiskmanager is not available unless you install the Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK), so we also support using qemu-img to create/compact the disk images.