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Package Details: vmware-workstation 17.6.3-3

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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:	3.33
First Submitted:	2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated:	2025-04-03 21:57 (UTC)

Dependencies (15)

dkms (dkms-git^AUR)
fuse2
gcr
gtk3 (gtk3-no_deadkeys_underline^AUR, gtk3-classic-xfce^AUR, gtk3-patched-filechooser-icon-view^AUR, gtk3-classic^AUR)
gtkmm3
hicolor-icon-theme (hicolor-icon-theme-git^AUR)
libaio (libaio-git^AUR)
libcanberra
libxcrypt-compat
pcsclite (pcsclite-git^AUR)
7zip (make)
python (python37^AUR, python311^AUR, python310^AUR) (make)
sqlite (sqlite-fossil^AUR) (make)
uefitool^AUR (uefitool-git^AUR, uefitool-bin^AUR) (make)
linux-headers (optional) – build modules against Arch kernel

Required by (6)

Sources (25)

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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cbdejavu commented on 2024-09-06 03:30 (UTC)

Those are the SHA2 and MD5 hashes included from broadcom's site. One thing a little concerning is the public download version you found doesn't match the hashes and they aren't in the same format so they were re-archived.

cbdejavu commented on 2024-09-06 01:42 (UTC)

the open-vm-tools are used for Linux Guest OS installs as the linux tools where depricated in the v10 of the toolbox several years ago. The VMware toolbox tools are still required for Windows Guest OS installs.

The link to them on broadcom's portal is: https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productdownloads?subfamily=VMware%20Tools

Here is a list of what is on broadcoms site (formatted terribly because I just copy and pasted from their download site)

I think that is correct it is just windows, the installer that is 134.65mb is probably both 32 and 64 bit.

VMware Tools packages for Windows

VMware-Tools-windows-12.4.5-23787635.zip(134.65 MB)

Build Number: 23787635 Jun 13, 2024 05.18AM c202a7faa0dd988637b3bc6effc53fd4fd5656682fc5f5f3d71e72b141dcf5ec 7c8cae8870f6bd2067768c6cbb02bebe

VMware Tools packages for Windows

VMware-Tools-windows-12.4.5-23787635.tar.gz(134.65 MB)

Build Number: 23787635 Jun 13, 2024 05.21AM b56b0f50282e50b90855bca8dc721740181b3e79fed738dce9b525d0c7916390 9d2fa1cde77c9b9f38761f7ad171d230

VMware Tools for Windows, 32-bit in-guest installer

VMware-tools-12.4.5-23787635-i386.exe.zip(42.97 MB)

Build Number: 23787635 Jun 13, 2024 05.23AM 5730edde2c5690efa2e6e0334915a0e6743f50b59c0944b2defd17fbe49c87be 3f23f0309e222acb0b9994c07caa3bb2

VMware Tools for Windows, 64-bit in-guest installer

VMware-tools-12.4.5-23787635-x86_64.exe.zip(87.94 MB)

Build Number: 23787635 Jun 13, 2024 05.25AM c7c7db1b5e07cfbf043ffdc73c8f861cac501ac094d0cb0a511ee741bbac0164 9003b972ae288ee1dd9061a13c5949fd

VMware Tools packages for GuestStore

gueststore-vmtools-12.4.5-23787635-23919197.zip(130.9 MB)

Build Number: 23787635 Jun 13, 2024 05.28AM 1f995e750dea792ee173b2cba83da7fbea7053f4415e7303cfd09087043be199 78f8b34e7190cb224a0bf8e3ead5260a

VMware Tools packages for GuestStore

gueststore-vmtools-12.4.5-23787635-23919197.tar.gz(130.9 MB)

Build Number: 23787635 Jun 13, 2024 05.31AM 706a14ea293fab3ab5adf61d674f3669ff2dffea658a85c4b984b830d034c029 07edfac953665d00643ef1e21bbc84dc

VMware Tools packages for Windows Arm

VMware-Tools-windows-arm-12.4.5-23787635.zip(59.94 MB)

Build Number: 23787635 Jun 13, 2024 05.34AM e5123adf045475b053af242c040821335a7444c19bed85649635140cd59587a1 29ca9b7c47e631363dc8cfd57ff6a770

VMware Tools packages for Windows Arm

VMware-Tools-windows-arm-12.4.5-23787635.tar.gz(59.94 MB)

Build Number: 23787635 Jun 13, 2024 05.36AM dc172891fc63ae1278981b67a83b93066270f09cbcc7958139c5c0b182c8dbdd 889f58c1241ad9cb3af5691eb91abae3

VMware Tools for Windows Arm, in-guest installer

VMware-tools-12.4.5-23787635-arm.exe.zip(32.89 MB)

Build Number: 23787635 Jun 13, 2024 05.39AM 97dc7ed1241b24255c79073f2e1999197ac90c7edf7cb2bd552b58e61c9bd772 74fd549b10e97d945032d912f6635501

VMware Tools Offline VIB Bundle

VMware-Tools-12.4.5-core-offline-depot-ESXi-all-23787635.zip(373.83 MB)

Build Number: 23787635 Jun 13, 2024 05.42AM d5dc826c88bc9a4d3600016f1065331fa02580428717bf60cb2ecf9be104fe77 e411fdfc7aff5cd1e6be83064c7a163e

ajgringo619 commented on 2024-09-05 21:24 (UTC)

Are the Linux guest tools from VMware even necessary anymore? I've been using open-vm-tools for years (as recommended by VMware themselves).

jihem commented on 2024-09-05 20:21 (UTC)

If someone know where the latest guest tools can be publicly downloaded, it would help me a lot to update the package to 17.6. Only Windows guest tools are available on this link: https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/17.6.0/24238078/linux/packages/

Emonora commented on 2024-08-17 15:07 (UTC)

Yes, I do have the linux headers on the latest version. Running dkms install vmware-workstation/17.5.2_23775571 -k 6.10.5-arch1-1 seems to fix the issue. The vmware-networks.service starts fine now. Thanks for your help!

jihem commented on 2024-08-17 04:15 (UTC)

@Emonora Do you have linux-headers installed? Is it to the same version than linux (6.10.5-arch1-1)? If not, fix that.

Otherwise, what is the result of the command dkms status? What happens if you force the recompilation and reinstallation of kernel modules with dkms install vmware-workstation/17.5.2_23775571 -k 6.10.5-arch1-1?

Emonora commented on 2024-08-16 22:06 (UTC) (edited on 2024-08-16 22:06 (UTC) by Emonora)

Hai. I've been using this package for vmware as of recently, and upon updating to the latest version of the OS (9.10.5-arch1-1) The module vmware-networks.service will not start, and outputs the following error when you look through it's logs.

Aug 16 16:41:21 arch modprobe[33542]: modprobe: FATAL: Module vmnet not found in directory /usr/lib/modules/6.10.4-arch2-1

It seems to be looking for the module in the old directory, however, the directory (6.10.4-arch2-1), is completely empty aside from one file. The file in question is the modules.weakdep file which only contains one line, that being the following: # Weak dependencies extracted from modules themselves.

I have tried and failed numerous times to resolve the issue, and I was wondering if anyone had a solution that worked or knew if the repo needed an update.

cezar commented on 2024-07-25 18:53 (UTC)

@jihem I have vanilla Arch, but with multilib enabled... I disabled multilib (pacman.conf) and removed all the 32bit libraries and clean reinstalled vmware and now it's working. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

jihem commented on 2024-07-25 16:07 (UTC)

It seems an incompatibility between dependencies. Do you use vanilla Arch or a distro based on it? The symbol __strlen_avx2 intrigues me, it seems you have installed packages optimized for your processor architecture.

Anyway, you can uncomment the line export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=yes in file /etc/conf.d/vmware to force VMware to use its built-in dependencies, maybe it will fix this issue.