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: 3.46
First Submitted: 2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-04-03 21:57 (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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jihem commented on 2019-09-22 22:10 (UTC)

I did nothing, but it seems that VMware improved a lot the startup time for this upgrade.

CaskAle13c commented on 2019-09-22 20:44 (UTC)

Wow, not sure what you did, but my startup time for workstation has gone from 10 seconds to 2 seconds on my laptop. AWESOME!!!

NekoBuster commented on 2019-09-22 13:19 (UTC)

Can you add StartupWMClass to the desktop app so we don't need to mannually add it every time after update?

NekoBuster commented on 2019-08-27 08:04 (UTC) (edited on 2019-08-28 01:13 (UTC) by NekoBuster)

I deleted everything related to vmnet1 and vmnet8 in the config file and then it works.

In the previous situation:

systemctl restart service - settings are not reset

reboot machine - settings get reset

use your provided command to regenerate the config - the situation persists

jihem commented on 2019-08-26 19:23 (UTC)

Atilir and NekoBuster: I don't have this problem on my computer. Maybe it only appears with a specific configuration. Can you show me your /etc/vmware/networking file?

If you restart the service (systemctl restart vmware-networks.service), do you have a reset of your configuration?

If you manually reset your configuration with the command "vmware-networks --stop; vmware-networks --postinstall vmware-player,0,1; vmware-networks --start" and reconfigure it, do you still have the problem when you reboot your computer?

NekoBuster commented on 2019-08-26 09:51 (UTC)

@Atilir: same here, thinking it may be a problem introduced in the most recent update, any solutions?

Atilir commented on 2019-08-14 06:58 (UTC)

When I reboot, my virtual network editor configuration reset (if I add a vmnet, after a reboot of my computer the vmnet is gone) and my file /etc/vmware/networking goes to default again even if I enter those parameters by hand.

jihem commented on 2019-08-13 20:41 (UTC)

@buzo : if you can build/install the package and start the program, I think you can ignore this warning.

buzo commented on 2019-08-13 17:09 (UTC)

I get the following warning when building in a clean chroot. Is there a dependency missing, or should I just ignore that?

==> Starting prepare()...
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
[AppLoader] Use shipped Linux kernel AIO access library.
An up-to-date "libaio" or "libaio1" package from your system is preferred.

jihem commented on 2019-08-13 16:15 (UTC)

@dvzrv: thanks for your suggestion. I've updated the package.

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