VmWare-Workstation 10.0.1 on openSUSE 13.1

yes, it's possible.
Execute the .bundle file (make it executable with +x if it's not yet). After the installation the link/launcher of VMware Workstation is placed in the Application Launcher Menu under "Recently Installed" (KDE).

Make sure 'gcc' and 'make' are installed. When launching it, it will tell you that a couple of modules need to be compiled and you'll get an error about 'gcc'. Installing it compiling might still fail, so 'make' might be missing. After installing it everything went well here.

The logs are in /var/log/vmware-installer. So if anything goes wrong check the logfile.

I'll try to run another installation with 'make' missing to catch the error and update the posting. stay tuned!

vlc - playlist

unhappy with amarok's memory consumption -amarok 10.5% MEM vs. vlc 1.8%- I switched to VLC.
I'm listening to the same couple of radio stations throughout the day and had to figure out a way how to start vlc with those stations.
I thought the best way would be to save the stations to a playlist, but I didn't find a way how to save a playlist. After each restart the playlist came up empty.

Here's how it works for me now:

Media -> Open Network Stream -> Enter URL of the station's stream
do this for all stations needed
Save playlist to file. I saved it as "vlc-playlist.xspf" to my home directory.
Now you can either start VLC from the CLI with "vlc vlc-playlist.xspf" or add an Icon/Launcher to the GUI with the Command: "/usr/bin/vlc vlc-playlist.xspf" and vlc will start with the x stations saved in that playlist.