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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

After installing with latest updates every vmware binary segfaults, e.g.:

Running: vmware Results in: 11286 segmentation fault (core dumped) vmware

BackTrace: coredumpctl info 11286
PID: 11286 (vmware) UID: 1000 (mpe) GID: 1000 (mpe) Signal: 11 (SEGV) Timestamp: Mon 2019-03-11 17:49:36 EDT (40s ago) Command Line: /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware Executable: /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/gnome-terminal-server.service Unit: user@1000.service User Unit: gnome-terminal-server.service Slice: user-1000.slice Owner UID: 1000 (mpe) Boot ID: 5db5997e4a644fb8aa4330565c445902 Machine ID: 4b9ed5b3330f4af5b84e139a66a893d4 Hostname: qlmpexps Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.vmware.1000.5db5997e4a644fb8aa4330565c445902.11286.1552340976000000.lz4 Message: Process 11286 (vmware) of user 1000 dumped core.

            Stack trace of thread 11286:
            #0  0x00007fba2f9b4715 __strlen_avx2 (libc.so.6)
            #1  0x000055dab40acb92 n/a (appLoader)
            #2  0x000055dab40af1b7 n/a (appLoader)
            #3  0x000055dab40aba5a main (appLoader)
            #4  0x00007fba2f879223 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6)
            #5  0x000055dab40ac311 n/a (appLoader)

Any ideas?

Thanks @jihem, that worked like a charm!

When you update to version 15.0.2-4, you should see an error telling that some files already exist. This is normal, the reason is that some files previously included in this package are now provided by another package (vmware-keymaps) which is now a dependency.

One solution is to install vmware-keymaps with the option --overwrite usr/lib/vmware/xkeymap/\* before updating vmware-workstation. Another solution is to uninstall your current version of vmware-workstation, then build and install the new version (with vmware-keymaps dependency).

jihem: That worked! Thank you so much for everyones help!

jihem: I do not believe I am! Installing now. Out of curiosity how did you see that commit? I am fairly new to Arch from MacOS. About 3 months now on my laptop and I love it more than any other OS but Im still working out some kinks here and there. I really appreciate the community support.

sizzen: Are you sure you use the latest version of this package: 15.0.2-3? The commit d17bd2c83158 includes some patches (taken from the repo you quote in your previous post) that make the package compatible with Linux 5.0.

If you are sure you use the latest version, can you show me the make.log file generated by DKMS?

majed17: When I run that I get this error modprobe: WARNING: Module vmmon not found in directory /lib/modules/5.0.0-arch1-1-ARCH.

Also more background, when install linux-headers via pacman I get this error dkms install vmware-workstation/15.0.2_10952284 -k 5.0.0-arch1-1-ARCH Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.0.0-arch1-1-ARCH (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/vmware-workstation/15.0.2_10952284/build/make.log for more information.

So I'm not really sure whats going on.

I have also tried going to this git repo https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules and downloading the modules for workstation 15.0.2 but I get an error saying that vmmon doesnt exist which is odd. Specifically there error listed below

make -C vmmon-only make[1]: vmmon-only: No such file or directory. Stop. make: [Makefile:21: vmmon-only] Error 2

you need to run modprobe -a vmw_vmci vmmon and magic, it will work :)

I recently upgraded to Linux Kernel 5.0.0. Does the latest package have support for this kernel? I mistakenly updated and now my virtual machines are not starting with the error Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. I do not see the module in the kernel modules either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

--EDIT--

Fixed after a system upgrade: pacman -Syu

I get the following error during installation:

Unable to install module vmware-workstation/15.0.2_10952284 for kernel 4.20.7-arch1-1-ARCH: Missing kernel modules tree.

I have 4.20.7-arch1-1-ARCH under /usr/lib/modules and have created a symbolic link to it in /usr/src.

Inside /usr/lib/modules/4.20.7-arch1-1-ARCH there's only build directory which I'm pretty sure means I have to build it but if I run make inside /build, it returns with:

Do not try to update included dependency files

scripts/Makefile.build:42: arch/x86/entry/syscalls/Makefile: No such file or directory make[1]: No rule to make target 'arch/x86/entry/syscalls/Makefile'. Stop. make: [arch/x86/Makefile:233: archheaders] Error 2

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks