- Download Workstation Pro from VMware
chmod +x
the bundle file, thensudo sh [vmware].bundle
- Follow this KB article to install dependencies (notably, you want to get
kernel-devel
as this contains the required headers, this is the only thing I had to install) - Follow the first impatient method here to compile and install the required kernel modules that VMware's installer will fail to do
- Sign the kernel modules if you have Secure Boot enabled by following this KB article. Notably, you need to change where Step 2 is looking for the kernel scripts by changing it to:
sudo /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`/scripts/sign-file sha256 ./MOK.priv ./MOK.der `modinfo -n vmmon`
sudo /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`/scripts/sign-file sha256 ./MOK.priv ./MOK.der `modinfo -n vmnet`
Then, run the mokutil
step as root with sudo
, reboot your machine, enroll the MOK key, then enter the password you set for it (if I'm looking at this in the future, I set mine to burrito
.)
- it's actually done why is it this complicated why why why why why aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa