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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

Failed to load vmmon kernel modules

⋊> ~ sudo modprobe -a vmw_vmci vmmon                                                                                                                                                                      
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vmmon': Invalid argument

From dmesg:

[Sun Sep 22 11:51:35 2024] BPF: [121012] TYPEDEF 6
[Sun Sep 22 11:51:35 2024] BPF: type_id=121003
[Sun Sep 22 11:51:35 2024] BPF:
[Sun Sep 22 11:51:35 2024] BPF: Invalid name
[Sun Sep 22 11:51:35 2024] BPF:
[Sun Sep 22 11:51:35 2024] failed to validate module [vmmon] BTF: -22

The kernel is LTS:

⋊> ~ yay -Ss vmware-workstation | grep 17.6                                                                                                                                                               
aur/vmware-workstation 17.6.0-1 (+202 7.64) (Installed)
⋊> ~ uname -r                                                                                                                                                                                             
6.6.52-1-lts

@jihem -- Thanks for the fix. Works just fine!

The link is already fixed in the last version of the PKGBUILD. Please re-download it.

I have the same error:

  -> Downloading VMware-Workstation-17.6.0-24238078.x86_64.bundle.tar...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/17.5.2/23775571/linux/core/VMware-Workstation-17.6.0-24238078.x86_64.bundle.tar
    Aborting...
 -> error making: vmware-workstation-exit status 1
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
vmware-workstation - exit status 1

==> Making package: vmware-workstation 17.6.0-1 (Fri Sep 6 21:51:28 2024)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Downloading VMware-Workstation-17.6.0-24238078.x86_64.bundle.tar...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/17.5.2/23775571/linux/core/VMware-Workstation-17.6.0-24238078.x86_64.bundle.tar
Aborting...

@jihem Thank you for explanation.

@ZorinArch I don't understand how the UEFITool project manages its releases, but some releases versions are named 0.xx.x and others are named Axx. These two types of releases provide different binaries, and only the 0.xx.x versions provide uefipatch binary. uefitool package provides the last 0.xx.x while uefitool-bin provides the last Axx. So yes, both packages are differents, even if they come from the same project. Please install uefitool instead.

@jihem i already installed uefitool-bin. Is it different from uefitool

Sorry, the link is fixed now.

@ZorinArch uefipatch is provided by the AUR package uefitool, which is added in the makedepends array when _enable_macOS_guests is set. I don't understand how you can have this error. Please check if /usr/bin/uefipatch exists and if not, try to rebuild uefitool.