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

Are the Linux guest tools from VMware even necessary anymore? I've been using open-vm-tools for years (as recommended by VMware themselves).

If someone know where the latest guest tools can be publicly downloaded, it would help me a lot to update the package to 17.6. Only Windows guest tools are available on this link: https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/17.6.0/24238078/linux/packages/

Yes, I do have the linux headers on the latest version. Running dkms install vmware-workstation/17.5.2_23775571 -k 6.10.5-arch1-1 seems to fix the issue. The vmware-networks.service starts fine now. Thanks for your help!

@Emonora Do you have linux-headers installed? Is it to the same version than linux (6.10.5-arch1-1)? If not, fix that.

Otherwise, what is the result of the command dkms status? What happens if you force the recompilation and reinstallation of kernel modules with dkms install vmware-workstation/17.5.2_23775571 -k 6.10.5-arch1-1?

Hai. I've been using this package for vmware as of recently, and upon updating to the latest version of the OS (9.10.5-arch1-1) The module vmware-networks.service will not start, and outputs the following error when you look through it's logs.

Aug 16 16:41:21 arch modprobe[33542]: modprobe: FATAL: Module vmnet not found in directory /usr/lib/modules/6.10.4-arch2-1

It seems to be looking for the module in the old directory, however, the directory (6.10.4-arch2-1), is completely empty aside from one file. The file in question is the modules.weakdep file which only contains one line, that being the following: # Weak dependencies extracted from modules themselves.

I have tried and failed numerous times to resolve the issue, and I was wondering if anyone had a solution that worked or knew if the repo needed an update.

@jihem I have vanilla Arch, but with multilib enabled... I disabled multilib (pacman.conf) and removed all the 32bit libraries and clean reinstalled vmware and now it's working. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

It seems an incompatibility between dependencies. Do you use vanilla Arch or a distro based on it? The symbol __strlen_avx2 intrigues me, it seems you have installed packages optimized for your processor architecture.

Anyway, you can uncomment the line export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=yes in file /etc/conf.d/vmware to force VMware to use its built-in dependencies, maybe it will fix this issue.

Hello,

I recently installed this package:

$ pacman -Qi vmware-workstation 
Name            : vmware-workstation
Version         : 17.5.2-3

$ pacman -Qi linux
Name            : linux
Version         : 6.10.arch1-2

$ pacman -Qi glibc
Name            : glibc
Version         : 2.40-1

$ lsmod | egrep "vmw_vmci|vmmon"
vmmon                 163840  0
vmw_vmci              118784  0

and for some reason all the vmware's binaries causes a segmentation fault:

[ 1441.287765] vmware[8273]: segfault at 0 ip 00007318b94de2dd sp 00007ffe1ed4b328 error 4 in libc.so.6[16f2dd,7318b9393000+171000] likely on CPU 3 (core 3, socket 0)
[ 1441.287773] Code: 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 89 f8 48 89 fa c5 f9 ef c0 25 ff 0f 00 00 3d e0 0f 00 00 0f 87 33 01 00 00 <c5> fd 74 0f c5 fd d7 c1 85 c0 74 57 f3 0f bc c0 c5 f8 77 c3 66 66

$ gdb -core=/var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.vmware.1000.2f22cadb1328419bb5b5b0f83c27cc47.7416.1721854782000000 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
GNU gdb (GDB) 15.1
...
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware...

Enable debuginfod for this session? (y or [n]) y
Debuginfod has been enabled.
To make this setting permanent, add 'set debuginfod enabled on' to .gdbinit.
(No debugging symbols found in /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware)
[New LWP 7416]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  __strlen_avx2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-avx2.S:76
76      VPCMPEQ (%rdi), %ymm0, %ymm1
(gdb) bt
#0  __strlen_avx2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-avx2.S:76
#1  0x000063a96e8f38b2 in ?? ()
#2  0x000063a96e8f6057 in ?? ()
#3  0x000063a96e8f26ef in ?? ()
#4  0x000073642949fe08 in __libc_start_call_main (main=main@entry=0x63a96e8f21e0, 
    argc=argc@entry=1, argv=argv@entry=0x7fffdf925d78)
    at ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58
#5  0x000073642949fecc in __libc_start_main_impl (main=0x63a96e8f21e0, argc=1, 
    argv=0x7fffdf925d78, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, 
    rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffdf925d68) at ../csu/libc-start.c:360
#6  0x000063a96e8f3045 in ?? ()
#7  0x00007fffdf925d68 in ?? ()
#8  0x0000000000000038 in ?? ()
#9  0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#10 0x00007fffdf9263a1 in ?? ()
#11 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Any suggestions?

Thank you, Cezar

Ok, I've reverted the last commit since it causes more problems for some people.