vmware player ebuild

[trumee]

Hello,

Where do i find vmware player and vmware modules ebuild? They seem to have been removed from portage.

Thanks

[The Doctor]

You can check in on the vmware overlay. Be advised that they disappeared for a reason.

[stefantalpalaru]

Where do i find vmware player and vmware modules ebuild?

In my overlay: https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/gentoo-overlay

The "vmware-workstation" package installs the player as "vmplayer".

[dewhite]

Where do i find vmware player and vmware modules ebuild?

In my overlay: https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/gentoo-overlay

The "vmware-workstation" package installs the player as "vmplayer".

Stefan:

I just upgraded from vmware-player 12 from the vmware overlay to vmware-workstation 15.5 in your overlay. When I launch vmplayer it brings up a prompt for workstation asking for a license key. Do I need to pass some switch to vmplayer to telll it that I don't want/need workstation when I launch it, or?

[deranonyme]

I have the same issue. I installed vmware-workstation from the stefantalpalaru overlay. Vmplayer started after installation correctly. I have had some problems with the network und and vmware-tools. After a restart of vmplayer the login for the workstation appeared and requested for licence. Any hints?

[mikegpitt]

Anyone have a resolution for this? I needed to upgrade my vmware installation and vmplayer prompts for a registration key. app-emulation/vmware-workstation installed from the stefantalpalaru overlay.

EDIT: Might just be a case of a deceiving UI in the new vmplayer. Thread here: https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/gent ... /issues/50

[proteusx]

If you do not insist on the latest version of vmware-workstation you can find version 12.5.9 here.
I am still using it and it works fine. Vmplayer works fine too. Version 15 is crap.
For kernel 5.4.xx vmware-modules need this patch.

[mikegpitt]

If you do not insist on the latest version of vmware-workstation you can find version 12.5.9 here.
I am still using it and it works fine. Vmplayer works fine too. Version 15 is crap.
For kernel 5.4.xx vmware-modules need this patch.

I ran into incompatibilities with version 12 and the latest Gentoo libraries. Specifically, version 12 is looking for libssl-1.0, but 1.1 is the latest in portage and required by packages on my machine. I did try to use the bundled libssl that comes with vmware, but this gave me an error on load. It's actually the reason I started looking to upgrade from version 12 to 15.

[proteusx]

I did try to use the bundled libssl that comes with vmware, but this gave me an error on load.

Perhaps if you tell more about the "error on load" we may be able to help.

The USE flags that work here:

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emerge -pqv vmware-workstation            
[ebuild   R   ] app-emulation/vmware-workstation-12.5.9.7535481  USE="bundled-libs cups doc ovftool server vix vmware-tools"

EDIT. For some reason that I cannot remember, I needed to add dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.5.6-r101 to package.provided

[mikegpitt]

Version 15 so far is working well for me, so I'm not too concerned. For reference, this is the error I was receiving after upgrading to libssl-1.1:

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VERIFY bora/lib/ssl/ssl.c:2392

VMware Player Error:

VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vmplayer)

Gentoo preserved the old libssl-1.0.2 library for compatibility, but it didn't work. The bundled library with vmware also gave the same error. Perhaps the error is related to another library, perhaps gcrypt? That's another library that vmware depends on and requires an older version (IIRC... I made a lot of tweaks yesterday trying to get things working).

[Muso]

Where do i find vmware player and vmware modules ebuild?

In my overlay: https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/gentoo-overlay

The "vmware-workstation" package installs the player as "vmplayer".

This is an excellent ebuild. I use the vmware-workstation & electricsheep (plus dependencies) from the stefantalpalaru overlay.

It just works perfectly.