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[SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

I am trying to install VMware Workstation Pro 15 when it tells me that I dose not find the kernel headers, even though I have installed Linux-headers and followed this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=156805

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855  Are you following https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware?  What was the command that  produced the error message along with command's full output?

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

I ran the bundle and that went through successfully, but when I run

 vmware 

to launch Workstation, it gives me a few Gtk warnings but I think those are insignificant. The GUI tells me that Kernel headers are not found - even though I followed the wiki when installing VMware.
I also followed the thread that you referred to but it did not work.

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

What is the output of the following

uname -a
pacman -Q linux linux-headers

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

uname -a : Linux tux-box 5.5.13-arch2-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:42:41 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

pacman -Q linux linux-headers:

linux 5.5.13.arch2-1
linux-headers 5.6.2.arch1-2

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

Partial upgrades are not supported.  Perform a full system upgrade so the kernel and kernel headers match.

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

Will VMware work after I run pacman -Syu, and reboot?

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

Why not try it and find out?

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

It worked!
edit: I managed to install VMware Workstation but when I try to start my VM it gives me the following error:

Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to open device "/dev/vmci": No such file or directory
Please make sure that the kernel module 'vmci' is loaded.
Module 'DevicePowerOn' power on failed.
Failed to start the virtual machine.

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

modinfo vmci

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

modinfo: ERROR: Module vmci not found.

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

Did you perform the modprobe step of https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VM … for_x86_64?

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

I just did the modprobe step you talked about, but when I run modinfo is still says module vmci not found

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

I just did the modprobe step you talked about, but when I run modinfo is still says module vmci not found

VMware works as supposed to even though modinfo is still saying module vmci not found. Thank you for your help.

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

That is fine I assumed the name of the module would be vmci from the error message.
Can you start a vm now that you have done the modprobe?

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Re: [SOLVED] VMware giving me errors about kernel headers

Yes, everything works fine, although there are a few things that I have to start before VMware for everything to work - but I can write a script to take care of that.

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