Package Details: vmware-workstation 26H1-3

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: 244
Popularity: 1.92
First Submitted: 2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-05-14 21:55 (UTC)

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JulianXhokaxhiu commented on 2026-05-14 21:57 (UTC)

New package version released: 26H1-3

Changes:

  • Reworked the packaging. xkeymap dependency is back again. Thanks for the feedback!

PLEASE NOTE: VMWare Player has been dropped by Broadcom, files do not exist anymore in the installer. Only the Workstation GUI is available starting this edition.

Enjoy!

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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kharovtobi commented on 2025-12-14 04:28 (UTC)

Can you add windows-x86.iso?

denji commented on 2025-11-22 16:47 (UTC) (edited on 2025-11-22 16:49 (UTC) by denji)

@mrechte

sudo pacman -S downgrade
sudo downgrade libxkbcommon=1.11.0-1 libxkbcommon-x11=1.11.0-1

/etc/pacman.conf
IgnorePkg = libxkbcommon libxkbcommon-x11

mrechte commented on 2025-11-22 10:00 (UTC) (edited on 2025-11-22 10:49 (UTC) by mrechte)

Hello. I start a WindowsXP VM, using vmplayer GUI, it boots OK. As soon as I click in the VM window, it disappears. From this point, I cannot start again the player until I restart the wayland session. This is what is shown in the terminal:

$ vmplayer 
Cannot load message dictionary "/usr/lib/vmware/messages/fr/vmware-mks.vmsg".

(vmplayer:169950): Gdk-WARNING **: 10:33:02.913: The program 'vmplayer' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 8148 error_code 2 request_code 135 (XKEYBOARD) minor_code 8)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

OK did not read well the comments below. Reverting from libxkbcommon-1.13.0-1 to libxkbcommon-1.11.0-1 worked.

BryanLiang commented on 2025-11-14 09:29 (UTC)

@p37r0v1ch Your workaround is somewhat safe. The root cause is that the libstdc++.so.6 bundled with VMware Workstation is too old and does not provide GLIBCXX_3.4.30, which is required by libicuuc.so.78. To avoid using the workaround, the only option is for VMware Workstation to update the bundled libraries.

p37r0v1ch commented on 2025-11-14 09:08 (UTC)

Hi there. After updating my packages, I started getting an error when launching VMware Workstation and VMware Player:

[AppLoader] Fail to load the library. /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libstdc++.so.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found (required by /usr/lib/libicuuc.so.78)

I searched for some information online and found that my system actually has a libstdc++.so.6 file containing GLIBCXX_3.4.30. However, I couldn’t figure out how to make VMware use the system libstdc++.so.6.

As a workaround, I did the following: mv /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libstdc++.so.6/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libstdc++.so.6/libstdc++.so.6.bak ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libstdc++.so.6/libstdc++.so.6

After this, VMware starts and works without any issues. However, I don’t consider this to be a proper solution. I might be asking in the wrong place — apologies if that’s the case. Is the error mentioned above expected behavior? Is this a minor issue with the AUR package? Or is it a VMware-wide issue?

pulsar68 commented on 2025-11-12 20:54 (UTC)

Confirmed for me: no issue using libxkbcommon 1.11.0. Thanks for the workaround.

max.bra commented on 2025-11-11 08:29 (UTC)

ok thanks for the info. anyway, not more crash here downgrading only libxkbcommon to 1.11.0

BryanLiang commented on 2025-11-11 08:27 (UTC)

@max.bra The crash is caused by libX11, not libxkbcommon. There is a patch fixing this issue from merge request 293, but it has not yet been merged.

max.bra commented on 2025-11-11 08:20 (UTC)

anyone tried libx11 1.13.0-1?

BryanLiang commented on 2025-11-02 14:19 (UTC) (edited on 2025-11-02 14:20 (UTC) by BryanLiang)

I make a package called libx11-mr293 on AUR, which applies the patch from merge request 293 for libX11. Anyone encounters the crash can use it until libX11 merges MR293 and releases a new version.

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