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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

can not installing!

==> Making package: vmware-workstation 14.1.2-1 (Sat 04 Aug 2018 08:32:19 AM +0430)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading VMware-Workstation-Full-14.1.2-8497320.x86_64.bundle...
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  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:08 --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:16 --:--:--     0
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  -> Found bootstrap
  -> Found vmware-vix-bootstrap
  -> Found config
  -> Found pam.d-vmware-authd
  -> Found configure-initscript.sh
  -> Found vmware-environment.sh
  -> Found config.xml
  -> Found datastores.xml
  -> Found environments.xml
  -> Found proxy.xml
  -> Found vmware-hostd-certificates.service
  -> Found vmware-hostd.service
  -> Found vmware-networks-configuration.service
  -> Found vmware-networks.service
  -> Found vmware-usbarbitrator.service
  -> Found dkms.conf.in
  -> Found Makefile
  -> Found vmmon.patch
  -> Found vmnet.patch
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    VMware-Workstation-Full-14.1.2-8497320.x86_64.bundle ... FAILED
    bootstrap ... Passed
    vmware-vix-bootstrap ... Passed
    config ... Passed
    pam.d-vmware-authd ... Passed
    configure-initscript.sh ... Passed
    vmware-environment.sh ... Passed
    config.xml ... Passed
    datastores.xml ... Passed
    environments.xml ... Passed
    proxy.xml ... Passed
    vmware-hostd-certificates.service ... Passed
    vmware-hostd.service ... Passed
    vmware-networks-configuration.service ... Passed
    vmware-networks.service ... Passed
    vmware-usbarbitrator.service ... Passed
    dkms.conf.in ... Passed
    Makefile ... Passed
    vmmon.patch ... Passed
    vmnet.patch ... Passed
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build vmware-workstation.
==> Restart building vmware-workstation ? [y/N]
==> -------------------------------------------
==> 

@buzo I did that by pacman -S linux-headers.

In fact, this command will install the version 4.17.3-1 linux-headers. This version is not 4.17-2-1 that vmware expected.

And the command yaourt -S vmware-workstation seems to download the right version. I can find it in the path /usr/lib/moudules/.

NowG: Have you installed linux-headers?

module vmmon load failed.

The actions that all I did:

1) yaourt -S vmware-workstation

2) modprobe -a vmw_vmci vmmon

Then the WARNING shows like below: modprobe: WARNING: Module vmmon not found in directory /lib/modules/4.17.2-1-ARCH

vmplayer crashed on guest shutdown, leaving this message:

VMware Player Error:
VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vmplayer)
Unexpected signal: 11.
A log file is available in "/tmp/vmware-sts/vmware-vmplayer-19886.log".  
You can request support.  
To collect data to submit to VMware technical support, run "vm-support".
We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

But there is no vm-support executable. What should I do?

linarcx: I don't have this error. Your .bundle file is probably corrupted (maybe not fully downloaded). Remove it and rebuild the package.

Hi. when i want to install, i get some errors:

==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
VMware-Workstation-Full-14.1.2-8497320.x86_64.bundle ... FAILED
bootstrap ... Passed
vmware-vix-bootstrap ... Passed
config ... Passed
pam.d-vmware-authd ... Passed
configure-initscript.sh ... Passed
vmware-environment.sh ... Passed
config.xml ... Passed
datastores.xml ... Passed
environments.xml ... Passed
proxy.xml ... Passed
vmware-hostd-certificates.service ... Passed
vmware-hostd.service ... Passed
vmware-networks-configuration.service ... Passed
vmware-networks.service ... Passed
vmware-usbarbitrator.service ... Passed
dkms.conf.in ... Passed
Makefile ... Passed
vmmon.patch ... Passed
vmnet.patch ... Passed
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
The build failed.
>>> elapsed time 13s

TheChickenMan: Thanks! I probably wouldn't be able to create this package without the work of the first packager, Synthead. But I also spent a lot of time to improve his package (to fix bugs, add missing functionalities, maintain for new versions...). It is not funny at all, but I'm pleased with the result.

Sherlock-Holo: I'm not sure I can help you, I don't really use this functionality. For testing purpose, I just run the vmware-hostd.service with one shared VM on my computer (which is also the client) and I don't have any problem.

You can check if it is a network problem: do you use the same port number in the host and in the client (see in "Edit", "Preferences", "Shared VMs")? Does the host use a firewall which blocks connections to this port? Moreover, check if you have the sufficient permissions (right click on "Shared VMs", "Permissions..."). You can also try to run vmware-hostd.service on the client machine and see if it works (if yes, the problem comes from the host or the network).

GugaDozero: sorry the the late answer, I hope you have found a solution. Otherwise, be sure that ncurses5-compat-libs package is installed and try to manually run the command "bash VMware-Workstation-Full-14.1.2-8497320.x86_64.bundle --extract=extracted" in the PKGBUILD directory to see the errors.