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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

@grunix That's not possible. linux-headers are just for people running linux. For alt kernels such as linux-lts and linux-zen it's linux-lts-headers, linux-zen-headers (and more variants). You can have multiple kernels and kernel headers on the same system, so dependencies can't catch this.

@trumee: Pick the "try" option, then only use VMWare Player (not Workstation). It won't expire.

please add linux-headers at least to the build dependencies. Missing vmmon module was caused by missing linux-headers packet on my system.

I want to use the non-commerical player. When i run /usr/bin/vmplayer, i get an window to trial vmware for 15 to 30 days. How can i get rid of this screen?

I generally build and test the package with macOS support, that's why .SCRINFO contains the dependencies for macOS support. It's the problem for PKGBUILDs with options: the .SCRINFO can match with only one configuration. I think I should always build the .SRCINFO for default configuration (without macOS support) in the future.

I don't know why pkgbuilder installs dependencies from .SCRINFO but makepkg ignores this file and only use the PKGBUILD.

jihem, you are right. It seems I just found a bug in pkgbuilder then. It pulls in it as a build dependency anyway, so I patched .SRCINFO and PKGBUILD and run makepkg manually.

I noticed that makepkg does not complain about missing uefitool-git when running manually. Thanks for your patience :)

GiRa: I agree with you. But it's already the case, if you read the PKGBUILD you will see this dependency is only added when the variable _enable_macOS_guests is set.

I think that uefitool-git should not be required by default. It's needed only for people who want to run MacOS.

@jrbaldridge Thanks for your suggestion. I applied your patch.

I also changed the URL for macOS unlocker.

_enable_macOS_guests=y doesn't work any more :( The repository is deleted.

It looks like vmware-networks-configuration.service is currently triggered by any of the following files missing:

/etc/vmware/networking /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf

Unfortunately this means if you remove vmnet1 or vmnet8, vmware-networks-configuration.service will be triggered and reconfigure all your networks. It looks like /etc/vmware/networking alone should provide a sufficient trigger, as it only exists post-network configuration, and will exist for any defined network configuration.

Here's a patch to only trigger vmware-networks-configuration.service if /etc/vmware/networking does not exist.

From f922f5a5051b87adcfed39588138b11903fdc98f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jared Baldridge <jrbaldridge@lbl.gov>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:09:27 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] adjust vmware-networks-configuraiton.service conditions

---
 vmware-networks-configuration.service | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/vmware-networks-configuration.service b/vmware-networks-configuration.service
index 779b01a..0d86867 100644
--- a/vmware-networks-configuration.service
+++ b/vmware-networks-configuration.service
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 [Unit]
 Description=VMware Networks Configuration Generation
-ConditionPathExists=|!/etc/vmware/networking
-ConditionPathExists=|!/etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf
-ConditionPathExists=|!/etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases
-ConditionPathExists=|!/etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf
-ConditionPathExists=|!/etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases
-ConditionPathExists=|!/etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf
+ConditionPathExists=!/etc/vmware/networking

 [Service]
 UMask=0077
-- 
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