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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

Error... Why does it happen? Help me, please:( Because of this error: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I installed both "lincanberra" "lib32-libcanberra-gtk3" and packages, I also tried to switch the first one with "libcanberra-git". The same error happens again. pkgfile libcanberra-gtk-module.so Tue 28 Nov 2017 10:09:18 AM CET extra/libcanberra multilib/lib32-libcanberra Also... # modprobe -a vmw_vmci # modprobe -a vmmon modprobe: WARNING: Module vmmon not found in directory /lib/modules/4.13.12-1-ARCH My lsmod: https://0x0.st/soeP.vmw_vmc :: Package vmware-workstation not found in repositories, trying AUR... :: resolving dependencies... :: looking for inter-conflicts... :: vmware-workstation-14.0.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling :: vmware-workstation-14.0.0-2 has been flagged out of date on Tue 28 Nov 2017 09:47:50 AM CET AUR Packages (1) vmware-workstation-14.0.0-2 :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving package(s)... sudo: a password is required [sudo] password for timofonic: :: Checking vmware-workstation integrity... ==> Making package: vmware-workstation 14.0.0-2 (Tue Nov 28 09:50:44 CET 2017) ==> Retrieving sources... -> Found VMware-Workstation-Full-14.0.0-6661328.x86_64.bundle -> Found 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 vmblock.patch -> Found vmci.patch -> Found vmmon.patch -> Found vmnet.patch -> Found vsock.patch ==> Validating source files with sha256sums... VMware-Workstation-Full-14.0.0-6661328.x86_64.bundle ... Passed 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 vmblock.patch ... Passed vmci.patch ... Passed vmmon.patch ... Passed vmnet.patch ... Passed vsock.patch ... Passed :: Preparing vmware-workstation... ==> Making package: vmware-workstation 14.0.0-2 (Tue Nov 28 09:50:47 CET 2017) ==> WARNING: Skipping dependency checks. ==> Retrieving sources... -> Found VMware-Workstation-Full-14.0.0-6661328.x86_64.bundle -> Found 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 vmblock.patch -> Found vmci.patch -> Found vmmon.patch -> Found vmnet.patch -> Found vsock.patch ==> WARNING: Skipping all source file integrity checks. ==> Extracting sources... ==> Starting prepare()... Extracting VMware Installer...done. Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Would you like toupdate the unlocker? There's a newer version here https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker/blob/master/unlocker.py

@mirh: actually, instructions about the services you can enable are written on the terminal during the first installation of the package. But I've just added a pinned comment for people who didn't see this information.

> and yes, you need to manually activate the services you want This should be a bit more prominent in the comments.

For me not install Vmware 14

Sorry, my bad! You already had included all the fixes in your vmmon.patch file, so it's all good! :)

@jihem: Can you please include the latest commit from GitHub to the vmmon module? It fixes a serious memory allocation problem with kernel 4.13. The problem appears at least with Windoze VMs but it might affect Linux VMs too. Without the fix, the VM would randomly freeze and give the following error message, "The virtual machine is unable to reserve memory". If both keyboard and mouse are confined to the VM window when the freezing occurs, there's no way to release them and the only way out is to reset the host computer. That's a cruel farewell to all unsaved work and data. Here's a link to the fix: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/blob/b50848c985f1a6c0a341187346d77f0119d0a835/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c

@jihem: Thanks! It's fixed for me. This is indeed hard to package and thanks again for the maintenance. :-)

The bug should be fixed now. I think it's a conflict with Archlinux libraries and VMware internal libraries (they use a different version of GTK3) which appear when iBus is installed. VMware try to read the file /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules.cache but it failed for some reason. I just use a tweak to prevent it to read this file. Tell me if the problem is not fixed for you.