Package Details: vmware-workstation 17.6.3-7

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: 214
Popularity: 3.28
First Submitted: 2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-06-12 17:55 (UTC)

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JulianXhokaxhiu commented on 2025-06-12 17:57 (UTC) (edited on 2025-06-12 20:48 (UTC) by JulianXhokaxhiu)

New package version released: 17.6.3-7

Changelog:

  • Add support for the latest linux 6.15.x kernel release ( thanks to @w568w for the patch! )

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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witt.9099 commented on 2024-07-05 13:52 (UTC)

look https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vmware-host-modules-dkms-git

yurikoles commented on 2024-06-22 10:52 (UTC) (edited on 2024-06-22 11:10 (UTC) by yurikoles)

Hello Julian,

This is an upstream issue. VMware used to provide a separate free server package for Linux and Windows. But at the same time they started to develop dedicated cloud solutions, they had integrated the server package into VMware Workstation, hence discontinued a separate free server product. But after a while they completely discontinued and stopped shipping it, even inside a VMware Workstation, advising users to consider some of their cloud solutions.

While it's a completely marketing policy decision, because VMware LLC, like any private software company, tries to maximise profits from their proprietary technologies. And it will be hard for them to justify dedicated cloud project price tags while still shipping the free server product. But these server technologies aren't discontinued, they just continue to evolve in other projects.

JulianXhokaxhiu commented on 2024-06-22 10:40 (UTC)

Hello, thank you very much for providing this package. I was trying to follow this part of the guide https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VMware#systemd_services but I got stuck in finding out the server binaries are no more there. May I ask what happened to them? I saw you had them included until workstation 15 and then eventually disappeared in 16 and now 17. Is there any plan on bringing them back? Thank you in advance.

jihem commented on 2024-06-02 14:37 (UTC)

@BryanLiang Yes, I have the same problem and it's not specific to this package: see https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/issues/253 and last comments of https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/issues/239.

VMware Workstation is still not fully compatible with Linux 6.9, if you need to change your network configuration I suggest to switch on linux-lts.

BryanLiang commented on 2024-06-02 14:14 (UTC)

@ihipop Yes, I have read the instruction. If you go to check the vmware-networks.service, you will find that the service wants vmware-networks-configuration.service, which will run the configuration service first.

And I also tried stopping the services, deleting the configuration files generated before, and followed the instructions. But that was still not working for me.

ihipop commented on 2024-06-02 14:05 (UTC)

@BryanLiang read the instruction carefully, it has been mentioned: vmware-networks-configuration.service

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.

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