Package Details: vmware-workstation 17.6.3-3

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: 212
Popularity: 3.53
First Submitted: 2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-04-03 21:57 (UTC)

Sources (25)

Pinned Comments

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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hecsa commented on 2020-09-13 02:20 (UTC)

Hi!
When updating the package I ran into this:

Building vmware-workstation...
==> ERROR: install file (vmware-workstation.install) does not exist or is not a regular file.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance and best regards,
HeCSa.

hoschi commented on 2020-09-10 08:46 (UTC) (edited on 2020-09-10 08:47 (UTC) by hoschi)

Hello!
When I reboot my virtual Windows 10 withing VMWare it causes a complete freeze of the host system. This seems to happen only with Wayland, when I switch to use X11 it seems to work fine. Anyone else?

PS: I'm using GNOME.

abruegmann commented on 2020-09-07 21:28 (UTC)

@jihem, @peeweep - thank you so much. Great job!

jihem commented on 2020-09-06 16:48 (UTC)

@peeweep: Now the package is compatible with Linux 5.9. I've updated with two patches from https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/commits/workstation-15.5.6. One of the patches is equivalent to yours.

peeweep commented on 2020-09-05 22:13 (UTC)

jihemel, would you like to add the kernel 5.9 support? I email you a patch.

--- a/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c
+++ b/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c
@@ -1739,7 +1739,9 @@
    lockedPages += global_page_state(NR_PAGETABLE);
 #endif
    /* NR_SLAB_* moved from zone to node in 4.13. */
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 13, 0)
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(5, 9, 0)
+   lockedPages += global_node_page_state_pages(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B);
+#elif LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 13, 0)
    lockedPages += global_node_page_state(NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE);
 #else
    lockedPages += global_page_state(NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE);

jihem commented on 2020-09-05 19:12 (UTC)

@gbr Thanks, these patches work well, no crash detected for the moment with Linux 5.8. I've updated the package with them.

gbr commented on 2020-09-05 00:51 (UTC)

Hi, can you take a look at this patch for 5.8 and maybe add it to your package? Thanks!

jihem commented on 2020-09-01 16:40 (UTC)

@sphere101 yes, I prevent the module vmmon to be compiled with Linux 5.8 because it is not compatible (see the pinned comment). For the moment you should stay on an LTS kernel version if you want to use VMware.

sphere101 commented on 2020-09-01 13:01 (UTC)

It appears that the latest linux kernel was not able to build the vmmon module.

Linux thor 5.8.5-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:53:02 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.

Does anyone have a workaround??

Thank you

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