Hi,
I actually just set this environment up an hour ago, (Ubuntu VMware 16.04) and everything seemed to work for me up until I tried to build the simulator. It looks like yours failed a little earlier than mine though, so I'd love to see if we can get it working, and if the issue I'm having shows up later on.
Could you post a terminal output of the fail? Any info you can give would help, as of now, I'm not even sure what you mean by "it fails to start".
