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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zelluz commented on 2017-06-07 11:16 (UTC)

@jihem Of course I did not try to reinstall the software, doh! After a reinstall(I did a complete uninstall of Workstation first), everything is working again. Thank you! (I am running the 4.11.3-1 kernel)

Sarithis commented on 2017-06-07 06:52 (UTC)

@jihem yeah, I was having problems with compiling vmware modules from the official vmware workstation bundle. I thought, that this problem also affects this version of the vmware package. I'm glad that it doesn't.

jihem commented on 2017-06-07 06:10 (UTC)

@zelluz: Which kernel do you use? If you reinstall the package, do you have some errors on DKMS compilation?

zelluz commented on 2017-06-06 07:21 (UTC) (edited on 2017-06-06 07:21 (UTC) by zelluz)

Having issues compiling modules after upgradering to the latest version. "Unable to start services. See log file /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-11569.log for details" Output in terminal: Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor failed Virtual machine communication interface done VM communication interface socket family done Blocking file system done Virtual ethernet failed VMware Authentication Daemon done In log file /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-11569.log the error is: "Hunk #12 FAILED at 1167. 1 out of 57 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file vmmon/linux/hostif.c.rej" Thank you in advance.

jihem commented on 2017-06-05 18:49 (UTC)

@Sarithis: these patches are not useful anymore, the last version of VMware already contains corrections for Linux 4.11. Do you have some errors on compilation? @zaephyr: thanks for the information!

Sarithis commented on 2017-06-05 17:13 (UTC) (edited on 2017-06-05 17:14 (UTC) by Sarithis)

These patches need to be applied before rebuilding vmware modules if you're using the newest kernel (4.11.3-1-ARCH): http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1932

zaephyr commented on 2017-06-02 19:03 (UTC)

@dann1 @jihem: As a note, open-vm-tools is what VMware recommends everyone use. They officially support it (https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/microsite.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=2073803) and are the maintainers of the official repo (https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools).

jihem commented on 2017-05-27 20:18 (UTC)

@dann1: do you talk about the "official" VMware tools, opposed to the open-vm-tools? I will thinking about that, but probably not. open-vm-tools works great, and it seems to me that now VMware tools does not provide more functionalities.

dann1 commented on 2017-05-27 19:03 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for this package. Is there the possiblity of you packaging vmware-tools? It would be really nice.

jihem commented on 2017-05-27 05:52 (UTC)

/usr/lib/systemd/system is the right place to put service files in a package and yes, you need to manually activate the services you want (using systemctl start/systemctl enable). And thanks for your second comment! I also hope I will be able to maintain this package for a long time. :)

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