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: 3.26
First Submitted: 2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-04-03 21:57 (UTC)

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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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GugaDozero commented on 2018-06-06 21:16 (UTC) (edited on 2018-06-06 22:19 (UTC) by GugaDozero)

Everything seemed ok, then:

==> Extracting sources... ==> Starting prepare()... ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare(). Aborting... ==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build vmware-workstation. ==> Restart building vmware-workstation ? [y/N] ==> -------------------------------------------

PS: I have changed the tmp of yaourt to /home/$USER/tmp, I should say that

i simply don't know what to do anymore

st8plgun commented on 2018-05-23 14:13 (UTC) (edited on 2018-05-23 21:37 (UTC) by st8plgun)

The upgrade to 14.1.2-1 broke the graphical elements of my installation under Antergos. The application starts and functions correctly and my VMs are functional, but the Workstation window is rendered in all black with white text and the menu bar element windows (File, Edit, View) all drop down as fully transparent and the white text overlays the visible text under the transparent dropdown. As a result, it is really difficult to use the Workstation menus. I attempted to reinstall w/ no success.

Any troubleshooting ideas?

Thanks

*EDIT* Appears my issue is a compatibility problem w/ Numix-Frost-Light application theme. Switching it to Adwaita(default) resolves the problem.

bigskyarch commented on 2018-05-15 17:47 (UTC)

I get an error when trying to install vmware workstation from the update manager. /tmp is full and cannot extract. /tmp is currently 2GB in size. It was recommended to edit yaourtrc to point to another tmp directory. I did this but the package still attempts to extract in /tmp.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Asgaroth commented on 2018-04-27 14:55 (UTC)

@jihem, thank you, that fixed it for me, much appreciated.

jihem commented on 2018-04-27 13:49 (UTC)

@Asgaroth: see https://superuser.com/questions/1210758/error-one-or-more-pgp-signatures-could-not-be-verified-arch-linux

Asgaroth commented on 2018-04-27 10:00 (UTC)

I'm getting some gpg failures for ncurses when trying to install this package.

First occurance is here:


==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    ncurses-6.1.tar.gz ... Passed
    ncurses-6.1.tar.gz.sig ... Skipped
==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg...
    ncurses-6.1.tar.gz ... FAILED (unknown public key 702353E0F7E48EDB)
==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!

It then completely fails the installation at this point:


==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    VMware-Workstation-Full-14.1.1-7528167.x86_64.bundle ... Passed
    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
:: failed to verify ncurses5-compat-libs integrity

I am trying to install using the following command (if relevent)


pacaur -S vmware-workstation

al-Kate commented on 2018-04-22 10:11 (UTC)

Wow! This is beautiful work, many thanks to maintainer. I love AUR.

jihem commented on 2018-04-22 05:15 (UTC)

It seems gksu was removed from official repos a few hours ago. I've simply removed this dependency in the package because VMware includes its own gksu version in case it is not installed in the system.

lazydomino commented on 2018-04-22 03:40 (UTC)

when I tried to compile this package, I got these errors:

==> Making package: vmware-workstation 14.1.1-2 (Sun Apr 22 11:39:38 HKT 2018)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Installing missing dependencies...
error: target not found: gksu
==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.

It seems that gksu is no longer alive in aur repo.

giswqs commented on 2018-03-22 18:53 (UTC)

@jihem I added the following three lines to /etc/pacman.conf. The errors still show up. Thanks anyway!

IgnorePkg = vmware-workstation vmware-horizon-client

NoUpgrade = vmware-workstation vmware-horizon-client

NoExtract = vmware-workstation vmware-horizon-client

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