
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.


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:
