Package Details: vmware-workstation 17.6.1-2

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: jihem
Last Packager: jihem
Votes: 203
Popularity: 3.30
First Submitted: 2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-10-11 05:17 (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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cryptodan commented on 2022-11-20 22:52 (UTC)

@normalalkene

I use Wayland, and my kernel models load. Try using ibt=off on the kernel command to see if they compile if using hybrid graphics.

jihem commented on 2022-11-20 20:23 (UTC)

@NormalAlkene I don't use Wayland and I don't know how well VMware supports it, but I am sure this is not related to your problem.

I don't know why the command never returns, I never had this kind of problem. If you use a custom kernel, you can try to install the official linux/linux-headers packages instead and see if that fixes it. You can also simply check if the VMware upgrade (version 17.0.0) fixes it.

NormalAlkene commented on 2022-11-18 01:57 (UTC) (edited on 2022-11-18 02:52 (UTC) by NormalAlkene)

The command modprobe -a vmw_vmci vmmon still does not return after hours of wait. And there are no outputs.

Does it have anything to do with Wayland and Sway?

fenugrec commented on 2022-11-01 20:15 (UTC)

@jihem Thanks. I haven't poked at it, I was hoping the .bundle was like others I've seen (essentially a shell script with a huge binary blob at the end), but that maybe allowed to configure the tmpdir via an env var or an argument.

Both workarounds you describe are better than remounting /tmp , thanks.

jihem commented on 2022-11-01 14:20 (UTC)

The use of the /tmp/vmis.* directory is "hardcoded" inside the .bundle file, when calling mktemp binary. One workaround is to modify the bundle to use another directory instead, for example with the following command line, before starting makepkg (of course, the checksum of this file will become wrong):

sed -i -e "s|mktemp -d /tmp/vmis.XXXXXX|mktemp -d ~/AUR/vmware-workstation/tmp/vmis.XXXXXX|" VMware-Workstation-Full-*.x86_64.bundle

Another workaround is to create a new mktemp binary, for example in /usr/local/bin (to take precedence over /usr/bin/mktemp), with the following content:

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/mktemp -d ~/AUR/vmware-workstation/vmis.XXXXXX

But this binary should be created only during the build of this package.

Unfortunately, I do not see any way to automate this work in the PKGBUILD (except by copying the bundle before patching it, but I prefer avoiding to copy a file of 500MB during the build process).

fenugrec commented on 2022-10-31 23:33 (UTC)

Thanks for packaging this. Having issues with 16.2.4 when the bundle extracts stuff to /tmp and tries to execute :

~/AUR/vmware-workstation/VMware-Workstation-Full-16.2.4-20089737.x86_64.bundle: line 288: /tmp/vmis.pgU4Bl/install/vmware-installer/vmware-installer: Permission denied

This is of course because /tmp is noexec, as generally recommended.

Any ideas for a workaround, besides remounting /tmp ?

txtsd commented on 2022-07-29 09:59 (UTC)

How does one launch this in Wayland instead of XWayland? I use Sway.

alphazo commented on 2022-07-28 20:10 (UTC)

@Launch42, you can fix that by adding "ibt=off" to your GRUB command line. The VMWare module doesn't seem to support the new Intel Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) feature that has been added to Linux 5.18.

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