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: 4.74
First Submitted: 2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-05-16 21:20 (UTC)

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Pinned Comments

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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Aleksana commented on 2022-05-11 12:30 (UTC)

Recently archlinux official changed gcc build version of linux kernel,leading to Error：incompatible gcc/plugin versions

PC2022 commented on 2022-04-28 22:57 (UTC)

Using the MS-Edge Win10 VM image, as supplied by MS.

Performance using vmware-worksation (16.2.3-2) seems to be horrible. It's responsive for a few seconds, then stalls for 10 seconds, rinse and repeat. Task manager shows Win10 is not CPU bound or RAM starved, so it's not clear what's causing the unresponsiveness

VMWare tools is installed, nVidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, should be more than capable. Anyone else seeing similar issues?

heimodl commented on 2022-04-21 06:08 (UTC)

@jihem Thanks for your advice.I change "export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=yes" then reboot my system, and problem fixed.

jihem commented on 2022-04-20 16:45 (UTC)

@heimodl The export to ovf works for me (at least with VMware Workstation, not tested with VMware Player). Maybe this is a problem with dependencies. Can you try to decomment the line export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=yes in /etc/conf.d/vmware, restart VMware and retry to export your virtual machine, and tell me if that works?

heimodl commented on 2022-04-19 14:56 (UTC) (edited on 2022-04-19 15:15 (UTC) by heimodl)

Hey guys, I just find that exprort vm to ovf failed in the latest versionn(16.2.3-2) Here the error message:

        Export failed: Unknown error, please try again. If the problem 
        persists, please contact VMware Technical Support and provide 
        /tmp/vmware-darklord/ovftool.log

BUT /tmp/vmware-darklord/ovftool.log is null. So i had to change the version to vmware-workstation15 15.5.7-8, then the error disappeared....

Does anybody know the solution? Thanks

sxe commented on 2022-04-08 17:00 (UTC)

ok thx. Btw, I tried v16.2.1 as well and get the same journal spam. Sadly that's the last version I can try. All the older ones won't allow me to build the kernel modules.

ajgringo619 commented on 2022-04-08 15:26 (UTC)

@swx - here it is: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Strange-journal-messages-on-working-system/m-p/2903073#M175091

sxe commented on 2022-04-08 14:13 (UTC)

@ajgringo619 Good to know I am not alone. Could you please link to your post, so I can keep an eye on it? Thx

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