Package Details: vmware-workstation 17.5.2-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/vmware-workstation.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: vmware-workstation
Description: The industry standard for running multiple operating systems as virtual machines on a single Linux PC.
Upstream URL: https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-for-linux.html
Keywords: dkms ovftool player vmplayer vmware workstation
Licenses: custom
Conflicts: vmware-modules-dkms, vmware-ovftool, vmware-patch, vmware-systemd-services
Provides: vmware-ovftool
Submitter: synthead
Maintainer: jihem
Last Packager: jihem
Votes: 192
Popularity: 3.23
First Submitted: 2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-05-16 21:20 (UTC)

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jihem commented on 2020-02-10 17:29 (UTC) (edited on 2021-06-19 13:19 (UTC) by jihem)

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

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zelluz commented on 2017-06-06 07:21 (UTC) (edited on 2017-06-06 07:21 (UTC) by zelluz)

Having issues compiling modules after upgradering to the latest version. "Unable to start services. See log file /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-11569.log for details" Output in terminal: Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor failed Virtual machine communication interface done VM communication interface socket family done Blocking file system done Virtual ethernet failed VMware Authentication Daemon done In log file /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-11569.log the error is: "Hunk #12 FAILED at 1167. 1 out of 57 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file vmmon/linux/hostif.c.rej" Thank you in advance.

jihem commented on 2017-06-05 18:49 (UTC)

@Sarithis: these patches are not useful anymore, the last version of VMware already contains corrections for Linux 4.11. Do you have some errors on compilation? @zaephyr: thanks for the information!

Sarithis commented on 2017-06-05 17:13 (UTC) (edited on 2017-06-05 17:14 (UTC) by Sarithis)

These patches need to be applied before rebuilding vmware modules if you're using the newest kernel (4.11.3-1-ARCH): http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1932

zaephyr commented on 2017-06-02 19:03 (UTC)

@dann1 @jihem: As a note, open-vm-tools is what VMware recommends everyone use. They officially support it (https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/microsite.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=2073803) and are the maintainers of the official repo (https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools).

jihem commented on 2017-05-27 20:18 (UTC)

@dann1: do you talk about the "official" VMware tools, opposed to the open-vm-tools? I will thinking about that, but probably not. open-vm-tools works great, and it seems to me that now VMware tools does not provide more functionalities.

dann1 commented on 2017-05-27 19:03 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for this package. Is there the possiblity of you packaging vmware-tools? It would be really nice.

jihem commented on 2017-05-27 05:52 (UTC)

/usr/lib/systemd/system is the right place to put service files in a package and yes, you need to manually activate the services you want (using systemctl start/systemctl enable). And thanks for your second comment! I also hope I will be able to maintain this package for a long time. :)

hogar1977 commented on 2017-05-26 21:33 (UTC)

NVM, figured it out on my own. Thanks for the helpful comment. This is by far the most useful package on my machine :-) Pls don't ever stop maintaining it :-)))

hogar1977 commented on 2017-05-26 21:24 (UTC)

It did! My vmplayer starts now, but I also noticed that the services you mention (the .service files) are only in usr/lib/systemd directory... should I start them from there or there is some procedure to be done to move them or add them to the /etc/systemd? and make them start automatically on every restart...

jihem commented on 2017-05-26 19:29 (UTC) (edited on 2017-05-26 19:31 (UTC) by jihem)

Hi hogar1977, Your error is in the /etc/vmware/config file. You probably have a file /etc/vmware/config.pacnew which appeared after the installation of this package (more information about that kind of files here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave). You should merge the /etc/vmware/config and config.pacnew files (using pacdiff) to import the line "libdir = ..." in the config file. Or, more simple, erase the /etc/vmware/config file with the config.pacnew (but you could lose some specific preferences about memory management in VMware, if you changed them). If, for any reason, you don't have the config.pacnew file, just add the following file at the end of /etc/vmware/config: libdir = "/usr/lib/vmware" About services, they were rewritten to not need the scripts in /etc/init.d contrary to vmware-patch and vmware-systemd-services, and theses packages are automatically removed to avoid conflicts with incompatibles services. This package doesn't require to start any service to use vmplayer, but it is highly recommended to start vmware-networks and vmware-usbarbitrator services to have all features available. vmware-hostd is specific to the Workstation version and allow to use VMs at distance. vmware.service doesn't exist here. Hope this post will help you!

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