Package Details: vmware-workstation 17.6.2-2

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: JulianXhokaxhiu
Last Packager: JulianXhokaxhiu
Votes: 209
Popularity: 3.32
First Submitted: 2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-01-12 11:33 (UTC)

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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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air_guidear commented on 2025-02-05 20:07 (UTC)

Anyone else not able to start vmware-networks?

ERROR: Missing 6.13.1-arch1-1 kernel modules tree for module vmware-workstation

It dies after "Started Bridge networking on vmnet0" when checking the systemctl status.

ajgringo619 commented on 2025-01-20 16:58 (UTC) (edited on 2025-01-20 16:59 (UTC) by ajgringo619)

Been getting these types of messages for a while now, can't find any file that references these old kernels/VMware versions:

Error! vmware-workstation/17.6.1_24319023: Missing the module source directory or the symbolic link pointing to it.
Manual intervention is required!

Everything works, never had a kernel module fail to build.

yurikoles commented on 2025-01-13 20:22 (UTC)

Please switch the p7zip macOS guests makedep to 7zip, like upstream ArchLinux did. It's a straightforward replacement, it works for me in a clean chroot.

jihem commented on 2025-01-11 20:50 (UTC)

@denji I don't know why you have removed your last message, but you are probably right: _create_database_file is the function that creates the database which contains the list of "components", including guest tools. I created this function exactly to fix this issue.

However, I don't know what should be changed in this database to make VMware able to see all the guest tools again. The official installer only installs Windows guest tools since version 17.6, so it is not possible to use it to make an install and analyse the content of the database.

jihem commented on 2025-01-11 19:53 (UTC) (edited on 2025-01-11 20:01 (UTC) by jihem)

@1nikolas the PKGBUILD downloads and installs all the guest tools, but it is possible that something is broken and prevents VMware to find the location of the guest tools ISO (I didn't test this point the last times I updated this package). Anyway, you can find all the ISO on /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages and manually mount the right ISO (linux.iso in your case) in the virtual CD-ROM.

Edit: actually, clicking on the button "Download and Install" then "Install" seems to work, too (without downloading anything).

1nikolas commented on 2025-01-11 18:11 (UTC)

@denji yes I know that but it's just weird because it tries to install the proprietary ones and it fails. But that works too I guess

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