(Optional) Instead of using /etc/init.d/vmware ( start|stop|status|restart) and /usr/bin/vmware-usbarbitrator directly to manage the services, you may also use. See the INSTALL document found on the repository for the most up-to-date module installation instructions for VMware Workstation versions from 12.5.5 and up. The older versions presented in this article and their natively supported kernels are as follows: 15.5 (kernels up to 5.4), 14.1.7 (4.18) and 12.5.9 (4.12).įor VMware bundle versions, a collection of patches needed for the VMware host modules to build against recent kernels can be found from the vmware-host-modules GitHub repository. VMware Workstation 16.0 supports kernel 5.8 out of the box. If it loads for too long without response, please try #Cannot load module vmmon.
rvice for guest network access (otherwise you will get an error could no connect 'ethernet 0' to virtual network and you will not be able to use vmware-netcfg).Then, as desired, enable some of the following services:
It is also necessary to install the appropriate headers package(s) for your installed kernel(s): for example linux-headers or linux-lts-headers.įor vmware-workstation AUR, start rvice first to generate /etc/vmware/networking. Install vmware-workstation AUR, vmware-workstation16 AUR, vmware-workstation15 AUR, vmware-workstation14 AUR, vmware-workstation12 AUR or vmware-workstation11 AUR for respectively versions 17, 16, 15, 14, 12 and 11 of VMware Workstation. If it shows Unable to install all modules, please try #Cannot load module vmmon. Tip: To (re)build the modules from terminal later on, use:
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