vmware-workstation14

maintainer voxan24 · 5 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads and executes a large VMware Workstation installer bundle (.bundle file, which is a self-extracting shell script/binary) plus multiple component archives directly from a personal/unofficial host (voxhost.fr) rather than from VMware's official servers. The bundle is then executed via bash in the prepare() function. While sha256sums are provided for all sources (providing integrity checking), the trust anchor is the PKGBUILD itself — if voxhost.fr were compromised or the maintainer replaced the files, users would get malicious binaries executed at build time. VMware's official bundles are available directly from vmware.com, so there is no legitimate reason to mirror them on a personal French hosting service. This is a classic supply-chain concern: executed binary/installer from an unofficial personal host. The checksums mitigate but do not eliminate the risk (they only protect against in-transit tampering, not against the host owner substituting files and updating the PKGBUILD). No piracy flag is warranted as VMware Workstation 14 is a legitimately licensed product being packaged (not cracked), though the macOS guest support note touches on EULA issues.

Triggered rules

MEDIUM source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

PKGBUILD:73 "https://voxhost.fr/vmware-aur/14/VMware-Workstation-${_pkgver/_/-}.${CARCH}.bundle.tar"

MEDIUM Privileged / out-of-pacman install (sudoers, setuid, or self-update) privileged_install

The package grants elevated privileges or installs an update path outside pacman: a /etc/sudoers.d rule (often passwordless), a setuid/setgid binary, or a self-update script/service that can fetch and run future code with no checksum verification. The initial install may be verified, but the ongoing privilege + update surface is a real supply-chain / privilege-escalation risk.

PKGBUILD:387 chmod +s \

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD downloads and executes a large VMware Workstation installer bundle (.bundle file, which is a self-extracting shell script/binary) plus multiple component archives directly from a personal/unofficial host (voxhost.fr) rather than from VMware's official servers. The bundle is then executed via bash in the prepare() function. While sha256sums are provided for all sources (providing integrity checking), the trust anchor is the PKGBUILD itself — if voxhost.fr were compromised or the maintainer replaced the files, users would get malicious binaries executed at build time. VMware's official bundles are available directly from vmware.com, so there is no legitimate reason to mirror them on a personal French hosting service. This is a classic supply-chain concern: executed binary/installer from an unofficial personal host. The checksums mitigate but do not eliminate the risk (they only protect against in-transit tampering, not against the host owner substituting files and updating the PKGBUILD). No piracy flag is warranted as VMware Workstation 14 is a legitimately licensed product being packaged (not cracked), though the macOS guest support note touches on EULA issues.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Voxan24 <admin "at" hessfr "dot" fr>
    
      2
    
      3# To enable macOS guests support, uncomment the line below:
    
      4#_enable_macOS_guests=y
    
      5# CAUTION: Running macOS on VMware Workstation on non Apple computer is forbidden by
    
      6# Apple and VMware EULAs.
    
      7
    
      8# vmware-keymaps dependency is needed to avoid some conflicts when you install
    
      9# this package with vmware-horizon-client. If you don't plan to install
    
      10# vmware-horizon-client and don't want to add this dependency, you can
    
      11# uncomment the line below:
    
      12#_remove_vmware_keymaps_dependency=y
    
      13
    
      14#PKGEXT=.pkg.tar
    
      15pkgname=vmware-workstation14
    
      16pkgver=14.1.7
    
      17_buildver=12989993
    
      18_pkgver=${pkgver}_${_buildver}
    
      19pkgrel=30
    
      20_tools_version=10.2.5-8068393
    
      21pkgdesc='The industry standard for running multiple operating systems as virtual machines on a single Linux PC.'
    
      22arch=(x86_64)
    
      23url='https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-for-linux.html'
    
      24license=(custom)
    
      25install="vmware-workstation.install"
    
      26conflicts=(
    
      27  vmware-workstation
    
      28  vmware-modules-dkms
    
      29  vmware-ovftool
    
      30  vmware-patch
    
      31  vmware-systemd-services
    
      32)
    
      33provides=(
    
      34  vmware-workstation=$pkgver
    
      35  vmware-ovftool
    
      36)
    
      37depends=(
    
      38  dkms
    
      39  ncurses5-compat-libs
    
      40  fuse2
    
      41  gtk3 # for gtk-query-settings binary
    
      42  gtkmm3
    
      43  libcanberra
    
      44  libaio
    
      45  pcsclite
    
      46  hicolor-icon-theme
    
      47  libxcrypt-compat # needed for ovftool
    
      48  # needed to replace internal libs:
    
      49  fontconfig
    
      50  freetype2
    
      51  harfbuzz
    
      52)
    
      53optdepends=(
    
      54  'linux-headers: build modules against Arch kernel'
    
      55)
    
      56makedepends=(
    
      57  sqlite
    
      58)
    
      59backup=(
    
      60  'etc/vmware/config'
    
      61  'etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml'
    
      62  'etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml'
    
      63  'etc/vmware/hostd/datastores.xml'
    
      64  'etc/vmware/hostd/dispatcher.xml'
    
      65  'etc/vmware/hostd/proxy.xml'
    
      66  'etc/vmware/hostd/tagExtractor.xml'
    
      67  'etc/vmware/netmap.conf'
    
      68  'etc/vmware/ssl/hostd.ssl.config'
    
      69  'etc/pam.d/vmware-authd'
    
      70  'etc/conf.d/vmware'
    
      71)
    
      72source=(
    
      73  "https://voxhost.fr/vmware-aur/14/VMware-Workstation-${_pkgver/_/-}.${CARCH}.bundle.tar"
    
      74  "https://voxhost.fr/vmware-aur/14/vmware-tools-freebsd-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component.tar"
    
      75  "https://voxhost.fr/vmware-aur/14/vmware-tools-linux-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component.tar"
    
      76  "https://voxhost.fr/vmware-aur/14/vmware-tools-linuxPreGlibc25-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component.tar"
    
      77  "https://voxhost.fr/vmware-aur/14/vmware-tools-netware-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component.tar"
    
      78  "https://voxhost.fr/vmware-aur/14/vmware-tools-solaris-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component.tar"
    
      79  "https://voxhost.fr/vmware-aur/14/vmware-tools-windows-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component.tar"
    
      80  "https://voxhost.fr/vmware-aur/14/vmware-tools-winPre2k-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component.tar"
    
      81  "https://voxhost.fr/vmware-aur/14/vmware-tools-winPreVista-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component.tar"
    
      82
    
      83  'vmware-bootstrap'
    
      84  'vmware-vix-bootstrap'
    
      85  'config'
    
      86  'pam.d-vmware-authd'
    
      87  'configure-initscript.sh'
    
      88  'vmware-environment.sh'
    
      89
    
      90  'config.xml'
    
      91  'datastores.xml'
    
      92  'environments.xml'
    
      93  'proxy.xml'
    
      94  'vmAutoStart.xml'
    
      95
    
      96  'vmware-hostd-certificates.service'
    
      97  'vmware-hostd.service'
    
      98  'vmware-authd.service'
    
      99  'vmware-networks-configuration.service'
    
      100  'vmware-networks.service'
    
      101  'vmware-usbarbitrator.service'
    
      102  'vmware-networks.path'
    
      103  'vmware-usbarbitrator.path'
    
      104
    
      105  'dkms.conf.in'
    
      106  'Makefile'
    
      107  'vmmon.patch'
    
      108  'vmnet.patch'
    
      109)
    
      110sha256sums=(
    
      111  '9e1b2b547af81916083cdf2796c4f953237da18a6d3ac84a423929d4b90749a7'
    
      112  '61701b601f23a358d3e51a0797cc4bc36a7a904f4a4b6518d922914089be8d6f'
    
      113  'd0e894abe633ad91fb9262b1b9f46097b586736a94c26c01cfb2a48fa59aef4a'
    
      114  'e51e13e2d8f6f2ce988f31925553ab18053ad7d52b285c5decfd933a3ad829f4'
    
      115  '062b126373fa38a01eefaf5db95905570505114490807df376165b38e242338f'
    
      116  '01cef17eff5e4f59d2728809ea493b3be14e0f9399d315d759f3635d4ee801c7'
    
      117  'd6aaf10b08796191fa4bde65a7a2d57176e7eed67c98d908dab2eb31023ff2a5'
    
      118  'b97ddec79a6b0ea91debadf0305f2528104a76feeeeacefd4877940a41d19e7f'
    
      119  '542029c8bf3b1d294560e694f762467928974020a2ad79e1ed8dfd8d3c2ef718'
    
      120
    
      121  '12e7b16abf8d7e858532edabb8868919c678063c566a6535855b194aac72d55e'
    
      122  'da1698bf4e73ae466c1c7fc93891eba4b9c4581856649635e6532275dbfea141'
    
      123  'dc52138eb01171207b761131f1ef8cbc33d838ff61644d70f5d1fa61f2469a8a'
    
      124  'd50aa0a3fe94025178965d988e18d41eb60aa1ce2b28ee6e3ca15edeabfa2ca7'
    
      125  '8e4d08668a66be79a900521792b39c16a026cc90659241edee80b64e701bfbcd'
    
      126  'de71ada1f5d5132fa75646a4f35cac2e50c54f250c315461633719c4b9cb3614'
    
      127
    
      128  '9f508d5f7ce4b69d9f40f6fb0ff0fb3d5b26a3c48658da994bf63975d1b589ab'
    
      129  '434cd4aa440d36b75ee20e0b588aaad874bb0d796173990bc4046667c66f5099'
    
      130  '57c7568a89e8af1914cf7aea84d8fefd6e7af4155557081292344326d652ae70'
    
      131  '3c802523606184a5e8ebbe931d9c6c70d83ff8c6833b9f48aa264f0bd5a18a88'
    
      132  'ad522a8cbc6103134ce5e677a01b503cd21875cbceb37bd13fd870ebd9ad0e6d'
    
      133
    
      134  'f9440479f3ae5ad0a39bba3150276627878bf83d6879444fb327c53a1dbb5a4d'
    
      135  '42594b60085d0bbef01ab07b9f8b0d18640001107ce61cc0ddf02d0ab415140f'
    
      136  'e4c2e97acf07c52de570dd4333d67acfb593db719937a563c6075ab773dcce33'
    
      137  '9b4fbe0ba83f761a2eb9ecd05d48428f8b0a5b3abd8404ccbd928408e682f02b'
    
      138  'c0a5aea785db06921fb350d36d5e0fd9a14f5eee0c835686ec6fea1af8c92245'
    
      139  'd7a9fbf39a0345ae2f14f7f389f30b1110f605d187e0c241e99bbb18993c250d'
    
      140  '16a73931894a65d43da489ff25d07647c0ecddf60d443b103bceca63504910fe'
    
      141  'fe1b1be8297f4170406f97dd1f8b385d911faf45afe19cbc0c26b8092b3ddf8d'
    
      142
    
      143  '10562d11d50edab9abc2b29c8948714edcb9b084f99b3766d07ddd21259e372e'
    
      144  '273d4357599a3e54259c78cc49054fef8ecfd2c2eda35cbcde3a53a62777a5ac'
    
      145  'd7414c5f8d2b6e389ed70fbc729fb299a4093b222f8a0333575a54d54f31a624'
    
      146  '3c3cf82d16d77594ea0c2e5a3c73628372e0d8d647f427c867d8bf5576dc9ad1'
    
      147)
    
      148options=(!strip emptydirs !debug)
    
      149
    
      150if [ -z "$_remove_vmware_keymaps_dependency" ]; then
    
      151depends+=(
    
      152  vmware-keymaps
    
      153)
    
      154fi
    
      155
    
      156_isoimages=(freebsd linux linuxPreGlibc25 netware solaris windows winPre2k winPreVista)
    
      157
    
      158if [ -n "$_enable_macOS_guests" ]; then
    
      159
    
      160_vmware_fusion_ver=10.1.6
    
      161_vmware_fusion_buildver=12989998
    
      162_vmware_fusion_ver_full=${_vmware_fusion_ver}_${_vmware_fusion_buildver}
    
      163# List of VMware Fusion versions: https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion/
    
      164
    
      165makedepends+=(
    
      166  python
    
      167  p7zip
    
      168  uefitool
    
      169)
    
      170
    
      171source+=(
    
      172  "darwinPre15-tools-${_vmware_fusion_ver_full}.zip.tar::https://voxhost.fr/vmware-aur/14/com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwinPre15.zip.tar"
    
      173  "darwin-tools-${_vmware_fusion_ver_full}.zip.tar::https://voxhost.fr/vmware-aur/14/com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwin.zip.tar"
    
      174  "unlocker.py"
    
      175  "efi-patches.txt"
    
      176)
    
      177sha256sums+=(
    
      178  '195313791f2c2cf880b0ba6c9d130e40ab6729335c0980fcc40df4209c1ed52b'
    
      179  'e36fb99a56a65d2c4d82168c8adb1ed19a9a7aaf75807c667c79a79f4968740a'
    
      180  '8a61e03d0edbbf60c1c84a43aa87a6e950f82d2c71b968888f019345c2f684f3'
    
      181  '392c1effcdec516000e9f8ffc97f2586524d8953d3e7d6f2c5f93f2acd809d91'
    
      182)
    
      183
    
      184_fusion_isoimages=(darwin darwinPre15)
    
      185fi
    
      186
    
      187
    
      188_create_database_file() {
    
      189  # Create a database which contains the list of guest tools (necessary to avoid that vmware try to download them)
    
      190  local database_filename="$pkgdir/etc/vmware-installer/database"
    
      191  echo -n "" > "$database_filename"
    
      192
    
      193  sqlite3 "$database_filename" "CREATE TABLE settings(key VARCHAR PRIMARY KEY, value VARCHAR NOT NULL, component_name VARCHAR NOT NULL);"
    
      194  sqlite3 "$database_filename" "INSERT INTO settings(key,value,component_name) VALUES('db.schemaVersion','2','vmware-installer');"
    
      195  sqlite3 "$database_filename" "CREATE TABLE components(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR NOT NULL, version VARCHAR NOT NULL, buildNumber INTEGER NOT NULL, component_core_id INTEGER NOT NULL, longName VARCHAR NOT NULL, description VARCHAR, type INTEGER NOT NULL);"
    
      196
    
      197  for isoimage in ${_isoimages[@]}
    
      198  do
    
      199	local version=$(cat "$srcdir/extracted/vmware-tools-$isoimage/manifest.xml" | grep -oPm1 "(?<=<version>)[^<]+")
    
      200	sqlite3 "$database_filename" "INSERT INTO components(name,version,buildNumber,component_core_id,longName,description,type) VALUES('vmware-tools-$isoimage','$version',${_pkgver#*_},1,'$isoimage','$isoimage',1);"
    
      201  done
    
      202
    
      203if [ -n "$_enable_macOS_guests" ]; then
    
      204  for isoimage in ${_fusion_isoimages[@]}
    
      205  do
    
      206	sqlite3 "$database_filename" "INSERT INTO components(name,version,buildNumber,component_core_id,longName,description,type) VALUES('vmware-tools-$isoimage','1',${_vmware_fusion_ver_full#*_},1,'$isoimage','$isoimage',1);"
    
      207  done
    
      208fi
    
      209}
    
      210
    
      211prepare() {
    
      212  extracted_dir="$srcdir/extracted"
    
      213  [[ -d "$extracted_dir" ]] && rm -r "$extracted_dir"
    
      214
    
      215  bash \
    
      216    "$(readlink -f "$srcdir/VMware-Workstation-${_pkgver/_/-}.${CARCH}.bundle")" \
    
      217    --install-component "vmware-tools-freebsd-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component" \
    
      218    --install-component "vmware-tools-linux-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component" \
    
      219    --install-component "vmware-tools-linuxPreGlibc25-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component" \
    
      220    --install-component "vmware-tools-netware-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component" \
    
      221    --install-component "vmware-tools-solaris-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component" \
    
      222    --install-component "vmware-tools-windows-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component" \
    
      223    --install-component "vmware-tools-winPre2k-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component" \
    
      224    --install-component "vmware-tools-winPreVista-${_tools_version/_/-}.${CARCH}.component" \
    
      225    --extract "$extracted_dir"
    
      226
    
      227if [ -n "$_enable_macOS_guests" ]; then
    
      228  for isoimage in ${_fusion_isoimages[@]}
    
      229  do
    
      230    7z e -y com.vmware.fusion.tools.$isoimage.zip payload/\* -o"fusion-isoimages" > /dev/null
    
      231  done
    
      232
    
      233  sed -i -e "s|/usr/lib/vmware/|${pkgdir}/usr/lib/vmware/|" "$srcdir/unlocker.py"
    
      234fi
    
      235}
    
      236
    
      237package() {
    
      238  local vmware_installer_version=$(cat "$srcdir/extracted/vmware-installer/manifest.xml" | grep -oPm1 "(?<=<version>)[^<]+")
    
      239
    
      240  # Make directories and copy files.
    
      241
    
      242  mkdir -p \
    
      243    "$pkgdir/etc"/{cups,pam.d,modprobe.d,thnuclnt,vmware} \
    
      244    "$pkgdir/usr"/{share,bin} \
    
      245    "$pkgdir/usr/include/vmware-vix" \
    
      246    "$pkgdir/usr/lib"/{vmware/{setup,lib/libvmware-vim-cmd.so},vmware-vix,vmware-ovftool,vmware-installer/"$vmware_installer_version",cups/filter,modules-load.d} \
    
      247    "$pkgdir/usr/share"/{doc/vmware-vix,licenses/"$pkgname"} \
    
      248    "$pkgdir/var/lib/vmware/Shared VMs"
    
      249
    
      250  cd "$srcdir/extracted"
    
      251
    
      252  cp -r \
    
      253    vmware-workstation/share/* \
    
      254    vmware-workstation/man \
    
      255    vmware-network-editor-ui/share/* \
    
      256    vmware-player-app/share/* \
    
      257    "$pkgdir/usr/share"
    
      258
    
      259  cp -r \
    
      260    vmware-workstation/bin/* \
    
      261    vmware-vmx/{,s}bin/* \
    
      262    vmware-vix-core/bin/* \
    
      263    vmware-vprobe/bin/* \
    
      264    vmware-workstation-server/{vmware-hostd,vmware-vim-cmd,vmware-wssc-adminTool} \
    
      265    vmware-network-editor-ui/bin/* \
    
      266    vmware-player-app/bin/* \
    
      267    "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      268
    
      269  cp -r \
    
      270    vmware-workstation/lib/* \
    
      271    vmware-player-app/lib/* \
    
      272    vmware-vmx/{lib/*,roms} \
    
      273    vmware-vprobe/lib/* \
    
      274    vmware-workstation-server/{bin,lib,hostd} \
    
      275    vmware-usbarbitrator/bin \
    
      276    vmware-network-editor/lib \
    
      277    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware"
    
      278
    
      279  cp -r \
    
      280    vmware-player-setup/vmware-config \
    
      281    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/setup"
    
      282
    
      283  cp -rL \
    
      284    vmware-workstation-server/config/etc/vmware/* \
    
      285    vmware-workstation-server/etc/vmware/* \
    
      286    "$pkgdir/etc/vmware"
    
      287
    
      288  cp -r \
    
      289    vmware-vix-lib-Workstation1400/lib/Workstation-14.0.0 \
    
      290    vmware-vix-core/{lib/*,vixwrapper-config.txt} \
    
      291    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-vix"
    
      292  cp vmware-vix-core/vix-perl.tar.nogz "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-vix/vix-perl.tar.gz"
    
      293
    
      294  cp -r \
    
      295    vmware-vix-core/doc/* \
    
      296    "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/vmware-vix"
    
      297
    
      298  cp -r \
    
      299    vmware-ovftool/* \
    
      300    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-ovftool"
    
      301
    
      302  cp -r \
    
      303    vmware-installer/{python,sopython,vmis,vmis-launcher,vmware-installer,vmware-installer.py} \
    
      304    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-installer/$vmware_installer_version"
    
      305
    
      306  cp -r \
    
      307    vmware-player-app/etc/cups/* \
    
      308    "$pkgdir/etc/cups"
    
      309  cp -r \
    
      310    vmware-player-app/extras/.thnumod \
    
      311    "$pkgdir/etc/thnuclnt"
    
      312  cp -r \
    
      313    vmware-player-app/extras/thnucups \
    
      314    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/cups/filter"
    
      315
    
      316  cp -r \
    
      317    vmware-vix-core/include/* \
    
      318    "$pkgdir/usr/include/vmware-vix"
    
      319
    
      320  for isoimage in ${_isoimages[@]}
    
      321  do
    
      322    install -Dm 644 "vmware-tools-$isoimage/$isoimage.iso" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/$isoimage.iso"
    
      323    install -Dm 644 "vmware-tools-$isoimage/$isoimage.iso.sig" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/$isoimage.iso.sig"
    
      324  done
    
      325
    
      326  install -Dm 644 "vmware-workstation/doc/EULA" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/VMware Workstation - EULA.txt"
    
      327  install -Dm 644 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/vmware.eula" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/VMware OVF Tool - EULA.txt"
    
      328  install -Dm 644 "vmware-workstation/doc"/open_source_licenses.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/VMware Workstation open source license.txt"
    
      329  install -Dm 644 "vmware-workstation/doc"/ovftool_open_source_licenses.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/VMware OVF Tool open source license.txt"
    
      330  install -Dm 644 "vmware-vix-core"/open_source_licenses.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/VMware VIX open source license.txt"
    
      331  rm "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-ovftool"/{vmware.eula,vmware-eula.rtf,open_source_licenses.txt,manifest.xml}
    
      332
    
      333  install -Dm 755 "$srcdir/configure-initscript.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-installer/$vmware_installer_version/bin/configure-initscript.sh"
    
      334
    
      335  install -Dm 644 "vmware-vmx/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe-vmware-fuse.conf" "$pkgdir/etc/modprobe.d/vmware-fuse.conf"
    
      336
    
      337  install -Dm 644 vmware-player-app/lib/isoimages/tools-key.pub "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/tools-key.pub"
    
      338
    
      339  install -Dm 644 vmware-vmx/extra/modules.xml "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/vmware/modules/modules.xml
    
      340  install -Dm 644 vmware-installer/bootstrap "$pkgdir"/etc/vmware-installer/bootstrap
    
      341  install -Dm 644 "$srcdir"/vmware-vix-bootstrap "$pkgdir"/etc/vmware-vix/bootstrap
    
      342  install -Dm 644 "$srcdir"/vmware-bootstrap "$pkgdir"/etc/vmware/bootstrap
    
      343  install -Dm 644 "$srcdir"/config "$pkgdir"/etc/vmware/config
    
      344
    
      345if [ -z "$_remove_vmware_keymaps_dependency" ]; then
    
      346  rm -r "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/xkeymap" # these files are provided by vmware-keymaps package
    
      347fi
    
      348
    
      349  for hostd_file in config datastores environments proxy vmAutoStart; do
    
      350    install -Dm 644 "$srcdir/$hostd_file.xml" "$pkgdir/etc/vmware/hostd/$hostd_file.xml"
    
      351  done
    
      352
    
      353  install -Dm 644 "$srcdir/pam.d-vmware-authd" "$pkgdir/etc/pam.d/vmware-authd"
    
      354
    
      355  echo -e "vmw_vmci\nvmmon" > "$pkgdir/usr/lib/modules-load.d/vmware.conf"
    
      356
    
      357  for service_file in \
    
      358    vmware-hostd-certificates.service \
    
      359    vmware-hostd.service \
    
      360    vmware-authd.service \
    
      361    vmware-networks-configuration.service \
    
      362    vmware-networks.service \
    
      363    vmware-usbarbitrator.service \
    
      364    vmware-networks.path \
    
      365    vmware-usbarbitrator.path
    
      366  do
    
      367    install -Dm 644 \
    
      368      "$srcdir/$service_file" \
    
      369      "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/$service_file"
    
      370  done
    
      371
    
      372
    
      373  # Apply permissions where necessary.
    
      374
    
      375  chmod +x \
    
      376    "$pkgdir/usr/bin"/* \
    
      377    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/bin"/* \
    
      378    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/setup"/* \
    
      379    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/lib"/libvmware-gksu.so/gksu-run-helper \
    
      380    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-ovftool"/{ovftool,ovftool.bin} \
    
      381    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-installer/$vmware_installer_version"/{vmware-installer,vmis-launcher} \
    
      382    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/cups/filter"/* \
    
      383    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware-vix/setup"/* \
    
      384    "$pkgdir/etc/thnuclnt/.thnumod"
    
      385
    
      386  chmod -R 600 "$pkgdir/etc/vmware/ssl"
    
      387  chmod +s \
    
      388    "$pkgdir/usr/bin"/vmware-authd \
    
      389    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/bin"/{vmware-vmx,vmware-vmx-debug,vmware-vmx-stats}
    
      390
    
      391
    
      392  # Add symlinks the installer would create.
    
      393
    
      394  for link in \
    
      395    licenseTool \
    
      396    vmplayer \
    
      397    vmware \
    
      398    vmware-app-control \
    
      399    vmware-enter-serial \
    
      400    vmware-fuseUI \
    
      401    vmware-gksu \
    
      402    vmware-hostd \
    
      403    vmware-modconfig \
    
      404    vmware-modconfig-console \
    
      405    vmware-mount \
    
      406    vmware-netcfg \
    
      407    vmware-tray \
    
      408    vmware-vim-cmd \
    
      409    vmware-vmblock-fuse \
    
      410    vmware-vprobe \
    
      411    vmware-wssc-adminTool \
    
      412    vmware-zenity
    
      413  do
    
      414    ln -s /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/bin/$link"
    
      415  done
    
      416
    
      417  for link in \
    
      418    vmware-mount \
    
      419    vmware-usbarbitrator
    
      420  do
    
      421    ln -s /usr/lib/vmware/bin/$link "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$link"
    
      422  done
    
      423
    
      424  ln -s /usr/lib/vmware/icu "$pkgdir/etc/vmware/icu"
    
      425  ln -s /usr/lib/vmware/lib/diskLibWrapper.so/diskLibWrapper.so "$pkgdir/usr/lib/diskLibWrapper.so"
    
      426  ln -s /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-hostd.so/libvmware-hostd.so "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-vim-cmd.so/libvmware-vim-cmd.so"
    
      427  ln -s /usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool "$pkgdir/usr/bin/ovftool"
    
      428  ln -s /usr/lib/vmware-vix/libvixAllProducts.so "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libvixAllProducts.so"
    
      429
    
      430
    
      431  # Replace placeholder "variables" with real paths.
    
      432
    
      433  for file in \
    
      434    gtk-3.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
    
      435  do
    
      436    sed -i 's,@@LIBCONF_DIR@@,/usr/lib/vmware/libconf,g' "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/libconf/etc/$file"
    
      437  done
    
      438
    
      439  sed -i 's,@@BINARY@@,/usr/bin/vmware,' "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/vmware-workstation.desktop"
    
      440  sed -i 's,@@BINARY@@,/usr/bin/vmplayer,' "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/vmware-player.desktop"
    
      441  sed -i 's,@@BINARY@@,/usr/bin/vmware-netcfg,' "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/vmware-netcfg.desktop"
    
      442
    
      443  sed -i 's,@@AUTHD_PORT@@,902,' "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/hostd/docroot/client/clients.xml"
    
      444
    
      445  sed \
    
      446    -e "s/@@VERSION@@/$vmware_installer_version/" \
    
      447    -e "s,@@VMWARE_INSTALLER@@,/usr/lib/vmware-installer/$vmware_installer_version," \
    
      448    -i "$pkgdir/etc/vmware-installer/bootstrap"
    
      449
    
      450
    
      451  # Patch up the VMware kernel sources and configure DKMS.
    
      452
    
      453  dkms_dir="$pkgdir/usr/src/$pkgname-$_pkgver"
    
      454
    
      455  install -Dm 644 "$srcdir/Makefile" "$dkms_dir/Makefile"
    
      456  install -Dm 644 "$srcdir/dkms.conf.in" "$dkms_dir/dkms.conf"
    
      457
    
      458  sed \
    
      459    -e "s/@PKGNAME@/$pkgname/g" \
    
      460    -e "s/@PKGVER@/$_pkgver/g" \
    
      461    -i "$dkms_dir/dkms.conf"
    
      462
    
      463  for module in vmmon vmnet; do
    
      464    tar -xf "vmware-vmx/lib/modules/source/$module.tar" -C "$dkms_dir"
    
      465    msg "Patching $module module for DKMS"
    
      466    patch -p2 --read-only=ignore --directory="$dkms_dir/$module-only" < "$srcdir/$module.patch"
    
      467  done
    
      468
    
      469  rm -r "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source"
    
      470
    
      471if [ -n "$_enable_macOS_guests" ]; then
    
      472  msg "Patching VMware to enable macOS guest support"
    
      473  python3 "$srcdir/unlocker.py" > /dev/null
    
      474
    
      475  for isoimage in ${_fusion_isoimages[@]}
    
      476  do
    
      477    install -Dm 644 "$srcdir/fusion-isoimages/$isoimage.iso" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/$isoimage.iso"
    
      478    install -Dm 644 "$srcdir/fusion-isoimages/$isoimage.iso.sig" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/$isoimage.iso.sig"
    
      479  done
    
      480
    
      481  msg "Patching EFI firmwares to disable macOS server checking"
    
      482  _efi_arch=("32" "64")
    
      483  for arch in ${_efi_arch[@]}
    
      484  do
    
      485    uefipatch "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/roms/EFI${arch}.ROM" "$srcdir/efi-patches.txt" -o "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/roms/EFI${arch}.ROM" > /dev/null
    
      486  done
    
      487fi
    
      488
    
      489  _create_database_file
    
      490
    
      491  # Define some environment variables for VMware and remove the tests about kernel modules
    
      492  install -Dm 644 "$srcdir/vmware-environment.sh" "$pkgdir/etc/conf.d/vmware"
    
      493  for program in vmware vmplayer vmware-netcfg vmware-tray; do
    
      494    sed -e '/export PRODUCT_NAME/asource /etc/conf.d/vmware' \
    
      495        -e 's/if "$BINDIR"\/vmware-modconfig --appname=.*/if true ||/' \
    
      496        -i "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$program"
    
      497  done
    
      498
    
      499  # Add StartupWMClass attribute to desktop files
    
      500  sed -i '/^StartupNotify=.*/a StartupWMClass=vmware' "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/vmware-workstation.desktop"
    
      501  sed -i '/^StartupNotify=.*/a StartupWMClass=vmplayer' "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/vmware-player.desktop"
    
      502  sed -i '/^StartupNotify=.*/a StartupWMClass=vmware-netcfg' "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/vmware-netcfg.desktop"
    
      503
    
      504  # use system font rendering
    
      505  ln -sf /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libfreetype.so.6/"
    
      506  ln -sf /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libfontconfig.so.1/"
    
      507
    
      508  # to solve bugs with incompatibles library versions:
    
      509  ln -sf /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0/"
    
      510}
    
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