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[wiki]Installing VMware
Technical Issues and Assistance Tutorials
vmware
Mar 2017
fhdk Computer Veteran | Coder | Sysadmin 1/8
23 Mar 2017
Sep '18

Successful installation is mostly not possible

VMware - Can I use it? Frequently Asked Questions

Short answer - maybe VMware is a proprietary, binary only application. As a long time user of
VMware products - I know you may have success - most likely you will get issues when Manjaro
is updated. VMware is extremely stable on supported platforms and VMware maintains a list of
supported host operating systems. Manjaro is not the list. Manjaro’s base Arch Linux is not on the
list either. Why is that Manjaro is a rolling release and not suited to the fixed release model of
VMware. Manjaro r…

Jul 2017
As of version 12.5.6 vmware is again broken.
It is an ever returning issue - an endless fight against the inevitable - and I have thrown the towel in
the ring.

This wiki applies to

VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.x (commercial evaluation)

VMware Workstation Player Pro 12.5.x (free for non-commercial use)

init.d
VMware relies on the init.d folder which is not a part of Manjaros requirements so before you start
your vmware installer create the folder

sudo mkdir /etc/init.d

Kernel headers
Ensure you have headers installed for your kernel e.g. kernel49

sudo pacman -S linux49-headers

VMware installer
Download the latest installer from vmware.com 627 - substitute the filename with the actual
bundled installer

chmod +x VMware-Player-VERSION-ID.ARCH.bundle
sudo ./VMware-Player-VERSION-ID.ARCH.bundle

systemd
For vmware product to launch it is required to load vmware daemon. This is done by executing

sudo /etc/init.d/vmware

This can automated by installing the vmware-systemd-services package from AUR

yaourt -S vmware-systemd-services

When installed start the service and enable it to run at boot time

sudo systemctl start vmware

sudo systemctl enable vmware

Kernel modules
VMware needs modules compiled with your kernel headers. Normally this compilation is handled
automatically when lauching the main vmplayer / vmware wrapper but in rare cases it has to be
done manually.

sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

Every time your kernel is updated you need the kernel headers for the new kernel. Manjaro normally
takes care of that part.

Warning
Be aware that updating your kernel might break your VMware installation. Compatibility issues has
been seen with several kernel updates.

Launch from terminal

VMware Workstation

vmware &

VMware Workstation Player

vmplayer &

Troubleshooting

Continued from VMWare Will not start

Symptoms versions 12.5.3 - 12.5.4 - 12.5.5

► Vmware refuses to launch and services are not working

► Vmware refuses to launch even all services running

Linker dynamic path

Source VMware Community 12

The dynamic linker cannot find the right version of libcurl.so.4

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libcurl.so.4:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
vmware &

Adding it to your .bashrc or .zshrc script won’t do any good as you can still not launch vmware
from its desktop file.

Source Danish Technical University 9

Further research seems to indicate that a user-wide LD_LIBRARY_PATH should be avoided as it can
pollute your environment. It seems vmware have ‘forgot’ the path to the linked library
libcurl.so.4

The better approach is to edit the vmware / vmplayer wrappers and add the export in it. This
approach will expose only to the wrapper the LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Edit vmware wrappers

$ sudo nano /usr/bin/vmware

$ sudo nano /usr/bin/vmplayer

► edited content

This works as of versions 12.5.3 - 12.5.4 - 12.5.5 and you can launch vmware / vmplayer from
console and from desktopfile. Later releases from VMware might have their own solution to this issue.

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jsamyth
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Apr '17

fhdk:

Be aware that updating your kernel might break your VMware installation.

This is a great Tutorial.

Here is one issue I see:

First:
 Be aware that updating your kernel might break your VMware installation.

I would change that slightly in light of the ease of changing kernels with Manjaro Settings Manager.

Generally, sub-point releases of kernels never cause a problem for VMware. Therefore, routine
Manjaro updates are never a problem.
(I can not say this with certainty, because I’ve only been running Vmware on Linux since 2003.)
(Version changes past the second decimal point are harmless: 4.10.xx = OK).

Only when digits immediately behind the first decimal change will you need to recompile Vmware
drivers, and this is usually detected automatically by Vmware the first time you launch it with a new
kernel.

Secondly: you will need a fairly complete kernel compile system installed in addition to kernel
headers. Make, compiler, etc.)

Third: The Open VMware tools, xf86-video-vmware and xf86-input-vmmouse packages in Manjaro
repositories are all you need for a Manjaro Guest. There is no point in trying to compile later versions
of these because the later versions only provide VmWare features not available on a Linux Host.

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