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

Change links https://softwareupdate-dev.broadcom.com to https://softwareupdate-prod.broadcom.com

# 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/

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/

Greetings JulianXhokaxhiu, just one question, is it possible to install it over a manual installation? It was advised that this is the process needed to be done temporary on the wiki page (and I did), but I would like to have it on the required package in order to ease future updates, does this affect somehow the process or can I proceed as usual? Thanks in advance

Thanks so much for navigating Broadcom's tangled web! I got the new package to install, but only after additionally installing vmware-keymaps.

//UPDATE: Published a new version of the package, should be working fine again. Enjoy!

I'm not sure who flagged the package as out of date, but that's an inappropriate usage of the functionality. Plase avoid doing so, as if abused I'll be forced to ask the AUR team to flag your user instead.

Related to the issue currently happening, it's well known and everyone is awaiting for updates from Broadcom on the matter, see https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/vmware-workstation-auto-updates-broken-after-broadcom-url-redirect/

When an official solution will be out I'll update the package accordingly. Until then, consider downloading artifacts required manually and put them next to the PKGBUILD.

Thanks for the patience.

@jihem: I've made the commit locally but I'll push it as soon as a new release will be published. Thanks for the heads up, cheers!

@MacharaSenpai Thanks very much! you are my hero.

Here I leave you what I did to install vmware without problems https://pastebin.com/39aFSGXj

and this is my PKGBUILD file that I used to install the package on my computer https://pastebin.com/vibGKh69

@ameiurl Try to make this bash command into a single line after removing iso related options(because the extract option is after iso installation parameters, do not just comment them)

 "$(readlink -f "$srcdir/VMware-Workstation-${_pkgver/_/-}.${CARCH}.bundle")" --extract "$extracted_dir"