VMware

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Contents
1 Installing VMWare Workstation on Manjaro
1.1 IMPORTANT
1.2 Install vmware-workstation
1.3 Start and enable services
2 Installing Manjaro under VMWare
2.1 Copy and Paste
3 Advice, Tips, and Tricks

Installing VMWare Workstation on

Manjaro
IMPORTANT

Warning:

Running VMware on Manjaro host is unsupported and may cease function after
updates.

Please see the link to VMware support page below.

Install vmware-workstation
The AUR package vmware-workstation will install VMWare Workstation and the
dkms modules needed to run it.

It can be installed with:

 pamac build vmware-workstation

After installing, either reboot, or load the required modules

sudo modprobe -a vmw_vmci vmmon

Start and enable services

There are three services that can be optionally be enabled:

vmware-networks.service: Provides network access inside VMs, most people

will want this enabled
vmware-usbarbitrator.service: Allows USB devices to be connected inside VMs
vmware-hostd.service: Enables sharing of VMs on the network

To start and enable these services use:

sudo systemctl enable --now vmware-networks.service

sudo systemctl enable --now vmware-usbarbitrator.service
sudo systemctl enable --now vmware-hostd.service

Installing Manjaro under VMWare

There are no special requirements to installing Manjaro on VMWare. open-vmware-
tools is pre-installed. It should "just work"

Copy and Paste

If copy and paste does not work, you may need to install gtkmm3 and re-boot. vmware-
user-suid-wrapper depends on gtkmm, but it's not a required dependency of the
package. See: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/43159

Advice, Tips, and Tricks

VMware Support article (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2129859)
 VMware Manjaro Forum Search (https://forum.manjaro.org/search?q=vmware)
VMware - can I use it (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/vmware-can-i-use-it/58861?
u=linux-aarhus)
Installing VMware (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/wiki-installing-vmware/19824?
u=linux-aarhus)

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