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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strayArch commented on 2019-05-16 17:47 (UTC) (edited on 2019-05-16 19:17 (UTC) by strayArch)

15.1.0 requires the patches to be updated (version increment and updpkgsums does not build). Not 100% my patch is correct http://stro.nz/public/PKGBUILD.patch http://stro.nz/public/modules.patch But, build, rmmod vmw_vmci vmmon && modprobe -a vmw_vmci vmmon, start vmware. Worked for me. Hope that helps.

douggle commented on 2019-05-16 00:33 (UTC)

as of May 14th, this package is out of date, the new version is 15.1.0 which I assume has fixes for the updated 5.1.2 kernel.

lawndoc commented on 2019-05-08 05:04 (UTC) (edited on 2019-05-08 05:04 (UTC) by lawndoc)

I get an error when trying to start workstation (installation was successful):

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I am unable to start workstation through gui (silent failure) nor cli (via 'vmware' command). I believe it's stemming from vmware-modconfig which also gives the segfault error.

FirstAirBender commented on 2019-05-07 20:04 (UTC)

Remember to install linux-headers so that the kernel modules can be compiled against it. It is listed as an optional dependency and therefore is not required to be installed

wrexthor commented on 2019-04-13 16:46 (UTC) (edited on 2019-04-13 17:15 (UTC) by wrexthor)

EDIT In case someone else have the same problem, disable firejail with sudo firecfg --clean Install and then re-enable firejail, solved it for me.

I get an error when trying to install. Been looking for an answer all over but not managed to find any solution yet, any ideas?

==> Patching vmmon module for DKMS ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored. /usr/bin/patch: **** Can't change to directory /var/tmp/pamac-build-boss/vmware-workstation/pkg/vmware-workstation/usr/src/vmware-workstation-15.0.4_12990004/vmmon-only : No such file or directory ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting...

GiRa commented on 2019-03-28 10:29 (UTC)

jihem: thanks for the reply. I understand your situation.

I can patch the .SRCINFO and PKGBUILD files at the update. No big deal. Thanks again for explaining.

buzo commented on 2019-03-27 17:00 (UTC)

jihem: I have just installed/updated vmware-keymaps and vmware-workstation with a single pacman command – without any special command line options. You will only get problems if you are trying to do that using two steps.

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