VMware Workstation

[pata66]

Hi I installed VMware Workstation through AUR. But when I start, I get this error message

Could not open / dev / vmmon: The file or directory does not exist.
Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon 'is loaded.

Is new to Linux and has used Manjaro for about 2 months.
MVH Patrick

[bogdancovaciu]

Hello,

Please read here

Could not open /dev/vmmon

Hello, here is something from the VMWare article https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2146460 It means you do not have the linux-headers installed for your running kernel. The following command will install the linux-headers automatically for all installed kernels but you are better using a LTS kernel: sudo pacman -S $(pacman -Qsq "^linux" | grep "^linux[0-9]*[-rt]*$" | awk '{print $1"-headers"}' ORS=' ') Reboot and then run: sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all Also see this for a r…

[sawdoctor]

Also note that vmware is not compatible with kernel 5.8 and won’t be until the next release of vmware. If you want to run vmware best option is the 5.4lts kernel, it works fine on 5.7(I’m using it) but 5.7 is Eol and will be removed from the repositories soon

[pata66]

Thanks so much. It worked

[SudoSandwich]

I had the same trouble and the solutions above worked just fine too, @pata66.

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