Package Details: vmware-workstation 26H1-3

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: 243
Popularity: 2.97
First Submitted: 2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-05-14 21:55 (UTC)

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JulianXhokaxhiu commented on 2026-05-14 21:57 (UTC)

New package version released: 26H1-3

Changes:

  • Reworked the packaging. xkeymap dependency is back again. Thanks for the feedback!

PLEASE NOTE: VMWare Player has been dropped by Broadcom, files do not exist anymore in the installer. Only the Workstation GUI is available starting this edition.

Enjoy!

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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jihem commented on 2017-07-11 15:03 (UTC)

Hi Steven, Unfortunately, vmware-installer is not available with this package for two reasons: - it is really complicated to implement in the PKGBUILD and need a lot of tests (I tried to implement it but I abandoned) - it will add/remove/change package files which is not a good idea (in the future, you might have pacman errors or remaining files after uninstallation) Besides, you should not have this error: the package contains all vmware tools in their last version. Do you have the directory /etc/vmware-installer/components? If yes, remove it. A workaround for your problem is to manually install guest tools: insert the ISO file (in /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/, select windows.iso, winPre2k.iso or winPreVista.iso depending your Windows version) in the virtual CD/DVD player.

StevenTheEVIL commented on 2017-07-10 23:11 (UTC)

How do I use vmware-installer in this package? I need to use the workaround for vmware-tools for a windows guest that's described on the wiki page for VMWare.

jihem commented on 2017-07-03 19:02 (UTC)

@justmeagain: Probably stupid question, but did you think to start vmware-networks service? If yes, do you have some errors? (systemctl status -l vmware-networks.service) You can start vmware-netcfg program to manage network interfaces (and, for example, remove and recreate vmnet1, maybe it will fix your problem). You can also reset all interfaces with the command "rm -r /etc/vmware/{networking,vmnet*} && systemctl restart vmware-networks-configuration.service"

justmeagain commented on 2017-07-03 07:49 (UTC)

"Could not connect 'Ethernet0' to virtual network 'dev/vmnet1'". This is the warning message I get when launching a virtual machine. Everything else works flawless, but I cannot connect guests to any network because vmnet adapters does not exists. Seems that installation process did not created the virtual network interfaces needed by vmware

frail commented on 2017-06-26 20:45 (UTC)

@jihem: oh man. I just put my dunce cap on. You're absolutely right. I forgot to load gksu on this clean install. :(

jihem commented on 2017-06-24 11:24 (UTC)

@frail: I cannot reproduce your bug. Actually, I think this bug is not related to this package. To verify that, install gksu package and start a graphical program with gksu (for example: "gksu nautilus"). If you have the same error, so your bug is not related to this package and is probably a bad configuration of your system. Search a solution on Google. If gksu works, the problem probably comes from this package, but I have no idea how to solve it. Try to uninstall the package, remove /etc/vmware and /etc/vmware-installer directories if they still exist and reinstall the package.

frail commented on 2017-06-23 18:52 (UTC)

I'm not sure if it's intentional although I'm unable to enter in my license key. Clicking the button opens a prompt: "Failed to run '/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-enter-serial' -n 'VMware Workstation' -v '12.0' as user root. Unable to copy the user's Xauthorization file." Anyone run up against this?

jmboris commented on 2017-06-19 20:49 (UTC)

@jihem Thank you very much !!! I installed the package manually following the first link, thank you !

jihem commented on 2017-06-19 08:56 (UTC)

@jmboris: This is because yaourt creates packages in RAM (/tmp directory is by default in RAM for performance reasons) and the creation of this package needs a lot of memory. Several solutions: - manually install this package outside /tmp (without yaourt, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Installing_packages) - change the directory used by yaourt to create packages (variable TMPDIR in /etc/yaourtrc) - prevent /tmp to be used in RAM (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/tmpfs#Disable_automatic_mount)

jmboris commented on 2017-06-18 16:30 (UTC)

Hello I have the following error , Can someone help me ? ==> Iniciando package()… install: error al escribir en '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-juan/aur-vmware-workstation/pkg/vmware-workstation/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso': No queda espacio en el dispositivo ==> ERROR: Se produjo un fallo en package(). Cancelando… ==> ERROR: Makepkg no ha podido compilar vmware-workstation.

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