Package Details: vmware-workstation 17.6.1-2

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: jihem
Last Packager: jihem
Votes: 202
Popularity: 2.79
First Submitted: 2017-02-10 19:04 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-10-11 05:17 (UTC)

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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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sxe commented on 2022-04-08 17:00 (UTC)

ok thx. Btw, I tried v16.2.1 as well and get the same journal spam. Sadly that's the last version I can try. All the older ones won't allow me to build the kernel modules.

ajgringo619 commented on 2022-04-08 15:26 (UTC)

@swx - here it is: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Strange-journal-messages-on-working-system/m-p/2903073#M175091

sxe commented on 2022-04-08 14:13 (UTC)

@ajgringo619 Good to know I am not alone. Could you please link to your post, so I can keep an eye on it? Thx

sxe commented on 2022-04-07 11:52 (UTC) (edited on 2022-04-07 11:54 (UTC) by sxe)

I just noticed, as soon as I enable networking

$ sudo systemctl start vmware-networks.service

my journal gets spammed with these messages, non stop and as far as I can tell it never ends spamming.

Apr 07 13:31:57 main kernel: userif-10: sent link up event.

Apr 07 13:31:58 main vmnet-natd[1736]: RTM_NEWADDR: index:2, addr:192.168.0.15

Couldn't find anything searching for it. Does anyone experience something similar or can give me a pointer how to fix it?

Thanks

yurikoles commented on 2022-04-04 03:26 (UTC) (edited on 2022-04-04 03:27 (UTC) by yurikoles)

@jihem

I accepted uefitool and in latest update made binary artifacts names lower-case in accordance to other uefitool-* packages. So please update line 412 of this PKGBUILD accordingly.

Kodehawa commented on 2022-04-02 21:59 (UTC) (edited on 2022-04-02 21:59 (UTC) by Kodehawa) 

/var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/16.2.3_19376536/build/vmnet-only/bridge.c:956:36: error: passing 'const unsigned char *' to parameter of type 'uint8 *' (aka 'unsigned char *') discards qualifiers [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
         SMAC_SetMac(bridge->smac, bridge->dev->dev_addr);
                                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/16.2.3_19376536/build/vmnet-only/./smac.h:75:45: note: passing argument to parameter 'mac' here
SMAC_SetMac(struct SMACState *state, uint8 *mac); // IN: state, and host MAC
                                            ^
1 error generated.

Anyone knows how to fix this error on DKMS compilation?

jihem commented on 2022-03-18 08:05 (UTC)

@LevitatingRein This is normal, because contrary to the official VMware installer, this package does not place any file in /etc/init.d. Daemons are installed as systemd units. And there is no equivalent systemd service for /etc/init.d/vmware; see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VMware#Package_build_for_x86_64 to know which services can be enabled.

Levitating commented on 2022-03-17 20:54 (UTC)

I just did a system upgrade and /etc/init.d disappeared.

I reinstalled this package but the /etc/init.d/vmware file is not coming back.

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