Package Details: vmware-workstation 17.5.1-2

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: 189
Popularity: 2.72
First Submitted: 2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-04-19 18:42 (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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jihem commented on 2019-03-13 10:50 (UTC)

zangoku: build the package vmware-keymaps as usual, but without the -i option of makepkg. Then, install it with the following line:

pacman -U --asdeps --overwrite usr/lib/vmware/xkeymap/* vmware-keymaps-1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

Then, update vmware-workstation.

mpei commented on 2019-03-13 03:41 (UTC)

@jihem: I just tried again at current state of arch, loaded the kernel modules and it works perfectly. Thank you!

zangoku commented on 2019-03-13 02:39 (UTC)

How can I use the overwrite option when install a package from the AUR ? I usually use git clone then makepkg.

mpei commented on 2019-03-13 02:27 (UTC)

@jihem: env VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=1 vmware is what I had tried tooo but it did not make a difference. I rolled back one week and run kernel 4.20 and installed vmware with the graphical installer and that works. I will try again in a few days to update to current state and then will try again to use the package.

jihem commented on 2019-03-12 20:25 (UTC)

mpei: it's probably a conflict between some libraries. Can you try to start VMware with the following command line:

env VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=1 vmware

viljeml: of course, you can also use the new --overwrite option. I updated my comment.

viljeml commented on 2019-03-12 10:42 (UTC)

solution to install vmware-keymaps with --force option is not possible because --force is deprecated

mpei commented on 2019-03-11 21:51 (UTC)

After installing with latest updates every vmware binary segfaults, e.g.:

Running: vmware Results in: 11286 segmentation fault (core dumped) vmware

BackTrace: coredumpctl info 11286
PID: 11286 (vmware) UID: 1000 (mpe) GID: 1000 (mpe) Signal: 11 (SEGV) Timestamp: Mon 2019-03-11 17:49:36 EDT (40s ago) Command Line: /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware Executable: /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/gnome-terminal-server.service Unit: user@1000.service User Unit: gnome-terminal-server.service Slice: user-1000.slice Owner UID: 1000 (mpe) Boot ID: 5db5997e4a644fb8aa4330565c445902 Machine ID: 4b9ed5b3330f4af5b84e139a66a893d4 Hostname: qlmpexps Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.vmware.1000.5db5997e4a644fb8aa4330565c445902.11286.1552340976000000.lz4 Message: Process 11286 (vmware) of user 1000 dumped core.

            Stack trace of thread 11286:
            #0  0x00007fba2f9b4715 __strlen_avx2 (libc.so.6)
            #1  0x000055dab40acb92 n/a (appLoader)
            #2  0x000055dab40af1b7 n/a (appLoader)
            #3  0x000055dab40aba5a main (appLoader)
            #4  0x00007fba2f879223 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6)
            #5  0x000055dab40ac311 n/a (appLoader)

Any ideas?

solatis commented on 2019-03-10 19:20 (UTC)

Thanks @jihem, that worked like a charm!

jihem commented on 2019-03-10 18:37 (UTC) (edited on 2019-03-17 11:58 (UTC) by jihem)

When you update to version 15.0.2-4, you should see an error telling that some files already exist. This is normal, the reason is that some files previously included in this package are now provided by another package (vmware-keymaps) which is now a dependency.

One solution is to install vmware-keymaps with the option --overwrite usr/lib/vmware/xkeymap/\* before updating vmware-workstation. Another solution is to uninstall your current version of vmware-workstation, then build and install the new version (with vmware-keymaps dependency).

sizzen commented on 2019-03-07 18:30 (UTC)

jihem: That worked! Thank you so much for everyones help!

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