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)

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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buzo commented on 2018-10-17 14:41 (UTC)

phoeven: This is Arch Linux, you won't get much support for Manjaro here. Besides, did you read the pinned comment, especially #1 there?

phoeven commented on 2018-10-16 19:04 (UTC)

Tried to install this with several kernels (4.14, 4.17, 4.18) but failed.

(1/6) Install DKMS modules ==> dkms install vmware-workstation/15.0.0_10134415 -k 4.18.7-rt5-MANJARO error: command terminated by signal 13: Broken pipe

When trying to start the VM: Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.

Not a lot to find in the make.log, only: /var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/15.0.0_10134415/build/vmmon-only/bootstrap/.tmp_monLoaderVmmon.o: warning: objtool: .text: unexpected end of section CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/15.0.0_10134415/build/vmmon-only/bootstrap/bootstrap.o /var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/15.0.0_10134415/build/vmmon-only/common/.tmp_task.o: warning: objtool: .text: unexpected end of section LD [M] /var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/15.0.0_10134415/build/vmmon-only/vmmon.o

Anybody any thoughts what's causing this?

jihem commented on 2018-10-12 20:13 (UTC)

mozzi32: because my bundle includes all the ISO images to install guest additions (stored in /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages). With the 149MB installer, the guest additions are downloaded only when you want to install them on a VM.

mozzi32 commented on 2018-10-12 16:58 (UTC)

I don't understand why your bundle is 420Mb size as on vmware site the download size is only 149Mb

jihem commented on 2018-10-10 21:13 (UTC) (edited on 2018-10-10 21:24 (UTC) by jihem)

MisterPresident: I never had this issue. Does your user have sudo rights? If no, be sure to enter the root credentials when the popup ask your password. You can also try to enter the license key from a terminal with root rights: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware#Entering_the_Workstation_Pro_license_key

MisterPresident commented on 2018-10-09 19:30 (UTC)

After entering my license key / or trying the trail version I get this message: Failed to register license. This may be because the root password is required to register your license. Please contact a system administrator with any questions. Any ideas?

gbr commented on 2018-10-07 20:37 (UTC)

Sounds great, thank you!

jihem commented on 2018-10-07 12:59 (UTC)

gbr: I've made some tests and I can confirm that gcr is responsible of the problem. I will add it in the dependencies in a future package update.

gbr commented on 2018-10-07 07:16 (UTC)

jihem: Thanks a lot for the tips. You're not going to believe this. I had already given up about getting the proper theme in VMware. So, a few minutes ago (literally) I had to use VMware, and I realized that both GTK/Icon themes were picked up correctly. Hilarious. So I had to find out how in the world I was able to fix this. The only thing I did in the past few hours was installing some packages, so it had to be it. I uninstalled about 8 packages and opened up VMware to see if some of them would break theming again. It actually did, so I skipped the ones which had nothing to do with GTK or GNOME and I was left with: gvfs. I found it weird that VMware needed gvfs to detect my default GTK/icon theme, however, when I installed gvfs, it pulled some other package too, called 'gcr'. So I uninstalled gvfs and just left gcr installed. To my surprise it worked...

But tomorrow I'll set up a virtual machine in a clean non-GNOME ambient, then install both vmware-workstation and gcr to see how it goes.

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