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After the first installation, please:

1) install the appropriate headers package(s) for your installed kernel(s): linux-headers for default kernel, linux-lts-headers for LTS kernel...

2) reboot or load vmw_vmci and vmmon kernel modules (modprobe -a vmw_vmci vmmon)

3) Enable the services you need (using .service units to activate them during boot or .path units to activate them when a VM is started) :

• vmware-networks: to have network access inside VMs

• vmware-usbarbitrator: to connect USB devices inside VMs

BTW, @JulianXhokaxhiu, instead of downloading 800MB VMware Fusion package, a 3.5MB darwin.iso and 3MB darwinPre15.iso may be downloaded here: https://packages-prod.broadcom.com/tools/frozen/darwin/

This package doesn't include VMware Tools for Windows Vista, which can be found here: https://packages-prod.broadcom.com/tools/frozen/windows/WindowsToolsVista/

Greetings JulianXhokaxhiu, just one question, is it possible to install it over a manual installation? It was advised that this is the process needed to be done temporary on the wiki page (and I did), but I would like to have it on the required package in order to ease future updates, does this affect somehow the process or can I proceed as usual? Thanks in advance

Thanks so much for navigating Broadcom's tangled web! I got the new package to install, but only after additionally installing vmware-keymaps.

//UPDATE: Published a new version of the package, should be working fine again. Enjoy!

I'm not sure who flagged the package as out of date, but that's an inappropriate usage of the functionality. Plase avoid doing so, as if abused I'll be forced to ask the AUR team to flag your user instead.

Related to the issue currently happening, it's well known and everyone is awaiting for updates from Broadcom on the matter, see https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/vmware-workstation-auto-updates-broken-after-broadcom-url-redirect/

When an official solution will be out I'll update the package accordingly. Until then, consider downloading artifacts required manually and put them next to the PKGBUILD.

Thanks for the patience.

@jihem: I've made the commit locally but I'll push it as soon as a new release will be published. Thanks for the heads up, cheers!

@MacharaSenpai Thanks very much! you are my hero.

Here I leave you what I did to install vmware without problems https://pastebin.com/39aFSGXj

and this is my PKGBUILD file that I used to install the package on my computer https://pastebin.com/vibGKh69

@ameiurl Try to make this bash command into a single line after removing iso related options(because the extract option is after iso installation parameters, do not just comment them)

 "$(readlink -f "$srcdir/VMware-Workstation-${_pkgver/_/-}.${CARCH}.bundle")" --extract "$extracted_dir"

makepkg -s                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ─╯
==> Making package: vmware-workstation 17.6.3-2 (Thu 03 Apr 2025 05:15:11 PM CST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found VMware-Workstation-17.6.3-24583834.x86_64.bundle.tar
  -> Found vmware-bootstrap
  -> Found vmware-vix-bootstrap
  -> Found config
  -> Found configure-initscript.sh
  -> Found vmware-environment.sh
  -> Found vmware-networks-configuration.service
  -> Found vmware-networks.service
  -> Found vmware-usbarbitrator.service
  -> Found vmware-networks.path
  -> Found vmware-usbarbitrator.path
  -> Found dkms.conf.in
  -> Found Makefile
  -> Found vmmon.patch
  -> Found vmnet.patch
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    VMware-Workstation-17.6.3-24583834.x86_64.bundle.tar ... Passed
    vmware-bootstrap ... Passed
    vmware-vix-bootstrap ... Passed
    config ... Passed
    configure-initscript.sh ... Passed
    vmware-environment.sh ... Passed
    vmware-networks-configuration.service ... Passed
    vmware-networks.service ... Passed
    vmware-usbarbitrator.service ... Passed
    vmware-networks.path ... Passed
    vmware-usbarbitrator.path ... Passed
    dkms.conf.in ... Passed
    Makefile ... Passed
    vmmon.patch ... Passed
    vmnet.patch ... Passed
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting VMware-Workstation-17.6.3-24583834.x86_64.bundle.tar with bsdtar
==> Starting prepare()...
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
root access is required for the operations you have chosen.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...

How to deal with this problem?

I just tried to download the files referenced in the PKGBUILD file from Broadcom's site. The only one I could find was the full .bundle file, none of the others seem to exist. And the softwareupdate.vmware.com domain doesn't exist anymore.

I installed the bundle file, and all seemed to go as expected. However, the website referenced for downloading the proprietary tools is also non-existent: softwareupdate.broadcom.com. I did eventually find them; forgot that the tools version number doesn't match the core package version number.