Package Details: vmware-workstation 17.6.3-5

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: JulianXhokaxhiu
Last Packager: JulianXhokaxhiu
Votes: 212
Popularity: 3.78
First Submitted: 2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-05-03 21:48 (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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BryanLiang commented on 2024-06-02 14:03 (UTC)

@ihipop Thanks for your advice. My situation is that I loaded the kernel modules first and start the vmware-networks.service directly. Now the network is working for my virtual machines, but I cannot open the network editor.

ihipop commented on 2024-06-02 13:35 (UTC)

@BryanLiang https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VMware#Package_build_for_x86_64

BryanLiang commented on 2024-06-02 12:07 (UTC)

I am not able to open Virtual Network Editor. Has any one else had this problem?

Gex commented on 2024-06-01 08:32 (UTC)

I'm having trouble installing this package. Running makepg ends with: ==> Starting prepare()... Extracting VMware Installer...done. ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare(). Aborting...

I can't even extract the bundle manually: % sh src/VMware-Workstation-17.5.2-23775571.x86_64.bundle --extract /tmp Extracting VMware Installer...done. % echo $? 1 It results in exit code 1 and /tmp stays untouched.

GoldenDreamcast commented on 2024-05-25 17:27 (UTC)

Is it possible to have this installed along side vmware-vmrc? I get similar conflicts to rado84, but it tells me the files are already owned by vmware-vmrc

jihem commented on 2024-05-20 16:45 (UTC) (edited on 2024-05-20 16:47 (UTC) by jihem)

when the bundle tries to install

The bundle should never try to install anything. You shouldn't manually start the bundle if you want to install VMware from this AUR package, and the PKGBUILD only extracts the files from the bundle to install them using its own script (it doesn't start the bundle installation).

Unfortunately, IDK how to force the aur helper (trizen) to write on the root partition. AFAIK trizen can not be run as sudo.

After re-reading your first comment, I think you don't understand how AUR works. To install this package, you should only start the command trizen -S vmware-workstation (or something similar, I don't know trizen syntax). Then trizen downloads the PKGBUILD in a directory, starts makepkg in this direcory and when the package is built, trizen uses pacman to install the package. Only pacman needs root privileges and is able to write files anywhere on the filesystem (I guess trizen uses sudo pacman -U, makepkg -i or something like that to run pacman with root privileges).

If you are sure to use trizen correctly, then maybe this is a trizen bug, so try with the manual method: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository#Installing_and_upgrading_packages

cryptodan commented on 2024-05-20 14:02 (UTC)

rado84, Are you using any other AUR packages that maybe in conflict, because your issue doesn't happen with my systems.

rado84 commented on 2024-05-20 13:06 (UTC)

@jihem, yes and I deleted them manually one by one, thus cleaning the system from everything vmware related. And then at the end of the installation the story repeats itself. So I backed up the current system, installed a fresh Arch with nothing else but the desktop and video driver and tried installing VMWare again - same thing: at the end of the installation "these files exist in the filesystem". Clearly one of the other files in the above list provides these files prematurely and when the bundle tries to install, it can't because of these conflicts. It's pointless, I'll use vbox. VMWare has become (to me) the same thing Skype did ever since MS bought it - something not to touch, if I wanna keep my sanity intact.

jihem commented on 2024-05-20 11:30 (UTC)

@ihipop No, the only language available is english.

@rado84 As yurikoles said, these files were created when you tried to install the bundle, even if the bundle was unable to finish the installation.

You can remove these files using this process: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VMware#Removal but if the installation was not finished, I am not sure it will work.

Otherwise, you can remove most of the files with the command rm -r /etc/vmware-installer /usr/lib/vmware-installer and force installing the package using the command given in yurikoles link: pacman -U --overwrite \* vmware-workstation-17.5.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

ihipop commented on 2024-05-20 02:02 (UTC)

Any way to change the localization language?

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