VMware; ¿Qué es y Cómo utilizarlo?

Héctor Louzao, El equipo de Fedora Docs Versión unknown Last review: 2025-03-31

VMware proporciona procesamiento en la nube y virtualización de software y servicios, sus productos más importantes son:

  • VMware Workstation Player, es un paquetes de virtualización de software y puede ejecutar dispositivos virtuales existentes y crear sus propias máquinas virtuales (que requieren instalar un sistema operativo para ser funcionales). VMware Player está disponible para uso personal no comercial.

  • VMware Workstation Pro, habilita a los usuarios para configurar máquinas virtuales (MV) sobre una única máquina física y usarla simultáneamente con la máquina actual. Cada maquina virtual puede ejecutar su propio sistema operativo, incluyendo versiones de Microsoft Windows, Linux, BSD y MS-DOS.

  • VMware Player/Workstation

Wmware is now free for commercial, educational, and personal use!, the free version includes all the features from the former paid versions.

How to Download VMware

To download any Product

  • Navigate to Broadcom Support: Broadcom Support and create an account.

  • From the Software menu section, select VMware Cloud Foundation then My Downloads.

  • Click on VMware Workstation Player/VMware Worstation Pro.

  • Click on your release.

  • Click Download.

How to Resolve Issues for WORKSTATION and PLAYER (ANY KERNEL + ANY VERSION)

Instalación

Player

$ sudo chmod +x ./VMware-Player-x.y.z-nn.x86_64.bundle
$ sudo ./VMware-Player-x.y.z-nn.x86_64.bundle

Workstation

$ sudo chmod +x ./VMware-Workstation-Full-x.y.z-nn.x86_64.bundle
$ sudo ./VMware-Workstation-Full-x.y.z-nn.x86_64.bundle

Resolving Conflict with Kernel

The problem here is always the same vmnet and vmmon doesn’t start well or doesn’t start at all, You should find a PATCH deal with changes in vmmon.c and vmnet.c because something breaks or add some parameters to these files, you can found the following:

  • know what is your kernel version?: uname -r.

  • know your Vmware version or install the latest. /usr/bin/vmware -v

  • Try to find the PATCH for a specific KERNEL version and Vmware.

  • You have to deal with sources ( vmnet and vmmon ) and apply fixed in both of them.

  • Try to find the fix for the specific product Vmware and Kernel version.

This guide try to help with all this boring stuff.

Requisito Previo

$ sudo dnf install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc gcc-c++ make git

Instalación

This repository tracks patches needed to build VMware (Player and Workstation) host modules against recent kernels.

For Example, I would like to Patch Workstation:

wget https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/archive/workstation-x.y.z.tar.gz
tar -xzf workstation-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd vmware-host-modules-workstation-x.y.z
make
sudo make install
Based on your VMware product, replace “x.y.z” with your installed version and/or “workstation” with “player”.

Dealing with Secure Boot and VMware modules

Options are available but for the moment Disabe Secure Boot is the best option.

Deal with Kernel Updates

You can create a script to take of this after a kernel update. Save it as /etc/kernel/install.d/99-vmmodules.install:

#!/usr/bin/bash

export LANG=C

COMMAND="$1"
KERNEL_VERSION="$2"
BOOT_DIR_ABS="$3"
KERNEL_IMAGE="$4"

ret=0

case "$COMMAND" in
    add)
       VMWARE_VERSION=$(cat /etc/vmware/config | grep player.product.version | sed '/.*\"\(.*\)\".*/ s//\1/g')

       [ -z VMWARE_VERSION ] && exit 0

       mkdir -p /tmp/git; cd /tmp/git
       git clone -b workstation-${VMWARE_VERSION} https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules.git
       cd vmware-host-modules
       make VM_UNAME=${KERNEL_VERSION}
       make install VM_UNAME=${KERNEL_VERSION}

       ((ret+=$?))
       ;;
    remove)
        exit 0
        ;;
    *)
        usage
        ret=1;;
esac

exit $ret

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