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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

Hey jihem, thanks for the work on this package!

For anyone who might get the following error... On a clean, minimal install of Arch, after installing this AUR package, modprobe -a vmmon came back with: WARNING: Module vmmon not found in directory /lib/modules/4.14.13-1-ARCH

pacman -S linux-headers solved this for me. It runs dkms install vmware-workstation/14.1.1_7528167 -k 4.14.13-1-ARCH and you should be able to run modprobe -a vmmon, afterward.

Hi all,

I finally changed my mind concerning VMware 12. It seems that a lot of people cannot upgrade to VMware 14 (because of the license or an incompatible processor) and VMware continue to provide security updates. Also, vmware-patch package is clearly not as convenient to use as this package.

That's why I created the package vmware-workstation12 and I will try to maintain it for the next kernel versions. It should not be a big work for me, but I will be able to make only very limited tests (my single machine already run VMware 14).

jihem i'll add this as well in case anyone had installed 12.5.x manually and upgraded to 14.x via AUR as I did and ran the uninstall and deleted all the previous files. Apparently I ended up with 2x /etc/vmware/config files and I had the "[AppLoader] Unable to lookup library directory" error as well but removing the older /etc/vmware/config file (by renaming, just in case) and copying the other config.pacnew file to just config did the trick. Thank you for making this work.

Thank you so much for updating to the latest version 12.5.8!!!

I tried using version 14 with the ' monitor.allowLegacyCPU = "true" ' command in the /etc/vmware/config file but to no avail.

Greetings Michael

To be clear, I don't maintain the 12.x.x branch of VMware, because I cannot reliably test the both versions on my personal machine. I only put instructions to install the last version I have built and tested.

Exceptionally, I have updated the package for 12.5.8 because it's probably the last update VMware will provide for this version. But keep in mind that I won't maintain compatibility for Linux > 4.14 (which is fortunately the new LTS) or fix future bugs/incompatibilities.

So, if you don't want to stay on Linux LTS, you should switch to vmware-patch. It is not as convenient to install as this package but the current maintainer provides the compatibility with this version of VMware.

First of all, thanks for the awesome package and the dedication you put into it.

Is it possible to also get the latest 12.5.8 version since you still seem to maintain the 12.5.7 version and you pinned instructions how to get it?

That would be awesome because I have a Core2Duo which is not capable of running the latest 14.x.x version.

What I changed in the PKGBUILD to get the version is: pkgver=12.5.8_7098237

The first line in the sha256sums to '04b93507724a5d38ea154436fb5c96e85b1009955eea5bb7995c5289a5acac32'

Unfortunately, there is an error message: Hunk #1 FAILED at 77. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file vmnetInt.h.rej

Thanks in advance Michael

@Win8Error: Thanks! It's done.

Can you please add "ncurses5-compat-libs" to the dependencies list?

Without it VMware can't use the Guest-Additions-ISOs for the VMs.

@jihem i removed the /var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/14.1.0_7370693/build directory and restarted the command "dkms install -k 4.14.8-1-ARCH vmware-workstation/14.1.0_7370693". I get the same error

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...

Building module:

cleaning build area...

make -j4 KERNELRELEASE=4.14.8-1-ARCH KVERSION=4.14.8-1-ARCH SRCDIR=/usr/src/vmware-workstation-14.1.0_7370693....(bad exit status: 2)

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.14.8-1-ARCH (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/14.1.0_7370693/build/make.log for more information.

Try to remove /var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/14.1.0_7370693/build directory and restart the command.