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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synthead commented on 2017-03-13 21:49 (UTC) (edited on 2017-03-13 21:50 (UTC) by synthead)

@kisacamel, thanks for the feedback! I tried the PKGBUILD with the new version and vmmon.patch doesn't apply (hunk #12 fails at line 1167). I'll get this updated, but I can't spend time on it today, unfortunately. I have marked this package out-of-date for now. If anyone's able to get vmmon.patch to apply, let me know what you did and I'll toss the changes in the package. Also, give me a contributor name and email and I'll give you a shout out in the PKGBUILD, too ;)

synthead commented on 2017-03-13 20:39 (UTC)

Whoops, looks like I accidentally excluded '/var/lib/vmware/Shared VMs' from the PKGBUILD on release 12 with commit 05fa339c37ade19c11339b0f35207153512dc012! Shared VMs weren't affected, though, as pacman doesn't remove any files it doesn't own. This is an empty directory, however, so if nothing was in it, it would've been removed in release 12, which would cause the problems mentioned with the vmware-hostd service. Just pushed release 14 to revert this issue and make everything happy again. Thanks for the feedback, @monotykamary!

<deleted-account> commented on 2017-03-13 19:17 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for fancy package! maybe vmware-workstation update as well while fixing it ? :) https://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/file/VMware-Workstation-Full-12.5.3-5115892.x86_64.bundle

synthead commented on 2017-03-13 18:48 (UTC)

@monotykamary, thanks for the feedback! I just updated vmblock.ko to use vfs_readlink and it works like a charm. I'm looking into the vmware-hostd service issue right now as well.

monotykamary commented on 2017-03-13 00:39 (UTC)

Current package DKMS modules do not build correctly due to make error on vmblock.ko for linux>=4.10. However in testing swordfeng's comment in vmware-modules-dkms, changing `generic_readlink` to `vfs_readlink` in vmblock.patch lets DKMS install the modules as intended. Service vmware-networks works without a problem. Service vmware-hostd modprobes vmmon and vmci correctly, but exits on status=255 with a backtrace log in systemctl.

synthead commented on 2017-02-25 02:05 (UTC)

Hi x-drum! Thanks for the feedback! I have added ovftool in release 12. Enjoy!

x-drum commented on 2017-02-24 15:33 (UTC)

Hi, currently is not possible to import VMs or template via OVA/OVF due to the missing component "vmware-ovftool", the process fails with: [..] spawn_async failed: Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/vmware/../vmware-ovftool/ovftool" (No such file or directory) [..] I was able to fix the PKGBUILD and include "vmware-ovftool", please consider the following patch: --- PKGBUILD.orig 2017-02-24 15:39:34.520016182 +0100 +++ PKGBUILD 2017-02-24 15:54:08.040027530 +0100 @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ "$pkgdir/run/vmware" \ "$pkgdir/var/lib/vmware/Shared VMs" \ "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-vix" \ + "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-ovftool" \ "$pkgdir/etc/vmware" cd "$srcdir/extracted" @@ -125,6 +126,10 @@ vmware-vix-core/vixwrapper-config.txt \ "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-vix" + cp -r \ + vmware-ovftool/* \ + "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-ovftool" + for isoimage in \ freebsd \ linux \ @@ -165,6 +170,8 @@ "$pkgdir/usr/bin"/* \ "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/bin"/* \ "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/setup/vmware-config" \ + "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool" \ + "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool.bin" \ "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/lib"/{wrapper-gtk24.sh,libgksu2.so.0/gksu-run-helper}

synthead commented on 2017-02-16 21:47 (UTC) (edited on 2017-02-16 21:48 (UTC) by synthead)

Included the "Virtual Network Editor" GUI tool and vmware-netcfg CLI tool. Also set wmware-networks.service to restart vmware-networks when it is killed. The "Virtual Network Editor" tool kills vmware-networks when settings are saved, so this is a quick and seamless fix that makes the network come back up with the new settings.

synthead commented on 2017-02-14 17:29 (UTC)

Updated vmware-hostd and vmware-networks services to probe the appropriate kernel modules when they start. @Pival81, this should take care of the issue you were seeing, and you don't need to run modprobe or configure modules-load.d before starting the services now.

synthead commented on 2017-02-14 16:40 (UTC)

Renamed vmware-workstation-server service to vmware-hostd. vmware-hostd does not start the vmware-usbarbitrator or vmware-networks services by itself anymore. This lets the user decide what specific VMware daemons to run instead of it being hard-coded as dependent services.

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