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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

Hello,

A bit of warning - what I'm about to share is more of a workaround to the problem I had. That being said, I'm sharing because someone may find it helpful.

So I recently upgraded my laptop from the 5.15 LTS kernel to the new LTS kernel, and vmnet.ko would oops the kernel when I would try to insert it. In case someone has a similar problem, you can build the kernel modules located at (https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules).

I was able to patch the new changes present in this repo on top of the vmware-workstation AUR repo; each vmware-workstation version has its own branch, and the changes are applied on top of the official tarball by vmware. This probably makes more sense if you look at the commit history and the list of branches.

To the maintainers of this package, here's the patch file I generated; you all should just be able to git apply $PATCH_FILE to pull in the changes (https://gist.githubusercontent.com/CarlosM10011/ff69db0640b742bf6a5ccde6855d5c94/raw/e23f47fb2331c98ed6333427ce04fe12b94d1c91/Patch-kernel-modules-with-latest-changes.patch).

Let me know if you all have questions, and hope this helps someone.

• Carlos

@ailick I don't have this kind of error when compiling the DKMS modules on an up-to-date system, but I know that the compiler generates some warnings and it seems that you use the compiler option -Werror which handles warnings as if they are errors, so the compilation fails.

Did you change some configuration in your system (/etc/makepkg or elsewhere, I honestly don't know how DKMS get the compiler options to apply) or use a custom compiler, which could explain the use of the -Werror option?

Im getting the following error while trying to install. Kernel version: 6.2.5

/var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/17.0.1_21139696/build/vmnet-only/driver.c:1411:22: error: a function declaration without a prototype is deprecated in all versions of C [-Werror,-Wstrict-prototypes]
VNetFreeInterfaceList()
                     ^
                      void
1 error generated.

/var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/17.0.1_21139696/build/vmnet-only/smac_compat.c:86:16: error: a function declaration without a prototype is deprecated in all versions of C [-Werror,-Wstrict-prototypes]
SMACL_GetUptime()
               ^
                void
1 error generated.

@jihem well,the log shows no guile lib installed.fixed. Thank you very much.

@frat This is strange, it compiles fine on my computer with the exactly same Linux version. Can you provide the content of /var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/17.0.1_21139696/build/make.log?

Install DKMS modules ==> dkms install --no-depmod vmware-workstation/17.0.1_21139696 -k 6.2.2-arch1-1 Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.2.2-arch1-1 (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/17.0.1_21139696/build/make.log for more information. ==> WARNING: `dkms install --no-depmod vmware-workstation/17.0.1_21139696 -k 6.2.2-arch1-1' exited 10

It is a regression since sqlite upgrade to version 3.41. I will try to fix it ASAP, but currently I don't understand what's wrong with my sqlite requests.

For the moment, it is possible to build the package by downgrading sqlite to version 3.40.1.

Edit: the PKGBUILD is fixed.

I too am getting the same error:

Error: in prepare, no such column: vmware-tools-linux
  mponent_core_id,longName,description,type) VALUES("vmware-tools-linux","12.1.5
                                      error here ---^

im getting the following error while trying to install.

Error: in prepare, no such column: vmware-tools-linux
  mponent_core_id,longName,description,type) VALUES("vmware-tools-linux","12.1.5
                                      error here ---^
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...