Arch Linux User Repository

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

Pushed another update which includes the following:

• Added the windows-x86 component

Thanks @denji for the heads up. Enjoy!

@JulianXhokaxhiu (VMware Tools for 32 bit Windows Vista or later) https://softwareupdate-prod.broadcom.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/17.6.3/24583834/linux/packages/vmware-tools-windows-x86-12.5.0-24276846.x86_64.component.tar

Thanks all for the amazing and lovely feedback. Sorry for the delay but I've been AFK for the past weeks so I am slowly catching up with everything that went here.

I just finished to push an update, which now includes the following:

• Updated CDN urls to use the prod ones ( were not working back then when I bumped the package the last time )

• Added Windows Vista SP1 and SP2 isos ( they won't be available in the internal database but you can find them where other ISO images are )

• Slimmed down the Darwin ISO download process ( which fetches only the isos from now on )

Did a quick run with makepkg and everything seems to be fine, but let me know in case something's not working. Cheers and enjoy!

I personally found the easiest way to get around the "https://softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com" issue until it's patched officially is to:

1) git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/vmware-workstation.git

2) Open the PKGBUILD file with your preferred text editor

3) Find & Replace softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com to softwareupdate-prod.broadcom.com

4) cd vmware-workstation

5) makepkg -si

This package does not include x86 tools iso for windows.

Change links https://softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com to https://softwareupdate-prod.broadcom.com (CDN non-autoindex)

# Resolve internal subdomains DNS `softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com` via `softwareupdate-prod.broadcom.com`, need to improve the User-Agent match.
curl -s --connect-to softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com:443:softwareupdate-prod.broadcom.com:443 \
 https://softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws-linux.xml

curl -s --connect-to softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com:443:softwareupdate-prod.broadcom.com:443 \
 https://softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/

curl -s -w "URL: %{url_effective}\n" --connect-to softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com:443:softwareupdate-prod.broadcom.com:443 \
 https://softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/17.6.3/24583834/linux/core/ \
 https://softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/17.5.2/23775571/linux/packages/ \
 https://softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/17.6.3/24583834/linux/packages/

# Resolve internal subdomains DNS `packages-dev.broadcom.com` via `packages-prod.broadcom.com`
curl -s --connect-to packages-dev.broadcom.com:443:packages-prod.broadcom.com:443 \
 https://packages-dev.broadcom.com/tools/

Seems like a link isn't working, I tried checking the URL and it doesn't exist anymore

  -> Downloading VMware-Workstation-17.6.3-24583834.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 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0curl: (6) Could not resolve host: softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com
Warning: Problem : timeout. Will retry in 3 seconds. 3 retries left.
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0curl: (6) Could not resolve host: softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com
Warning: Problem : timeout. Will retry in 3 seconds. 2 retries left.
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0curl: (6) Could not resolve host: softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com
Warning: Problem : timeout. Will retry in 3 seconds. 1 retry left.
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0curl: (6) Could not resolve host: softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/17.6.3/24583834/linux/core/VMware-Workstation-17.6.3-24583834.x86_64.bundle.tar
    Aborting...

BTW, @JulianXhokaxhiu, instead of downloading 800MB VMware Fusion package, a 3.5MB darwin.iso and 3MB darwinPre15.iso may be downloaded here: https://packages-prod.broadcom.com/tools/frozen/darwin/

This package doesn't include VMware Tools for Windows Vista, which can be found here: https://packages-prod.broadcom.com/tools/frozen/windows/WindowsToolsVista/