#[SOLVED] VMware's Virtual Network Editor is not starting

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celest knoll
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On my Arch Linux, I've installed VMware Workstation using a package from AUR - vmware-workstation . I started vmware-networks-configuration.service

# systemctl start vmware-networks-configuration.service

and enabled all services I wanted, including vmware-networks.service. I had some problems with that, but now I have the Internet connection on my VM. After rebooting host there are some errors when I check the status of vmware-networks.service saying

Jun 10 19:56:34 odin vmnetBridge[668]: Can't connect bridge enp5s0 to virtual network 0 (Resource deadlock avoided).
Jun 10 19:56:34 odin vmnetBridge[668]: RTM_NEWLINK: name:enp5s0 index:2 flags:0x00011043

But after a restart, everything looks fine again.

My main problem is I can't start Virtual Networks Editor. After I try doing that from VMware's GUI, I type passoword after polkit pops up, but then nothing happens. Starting this functionality from terminal results with not getting any response (I waited few minutes)

In /var/log/vmware is only one file related to some usb problems that happened few days ago.

Also I don't know if it is related to my main point, but since I've installed VMware my host can be really laggy.

Please help me understand why I can't start Virtual Networks Editor in VMware Workstation on Arch Linux host and possibly show me how I can fix the issue.

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@celest knoll is there any reason you can't use virt-manager?

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If I understand correctly, it is an alternative for VMware. Maybe I will try it later, but I would like to understand this issue first

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@celest knoll

little aspen
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If you want it to just work you might as well use qemu

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The wiki has excellant documentation

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May fiz lag issues as well

celest knoll
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@celest knoll

celest knoll
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yeah, i've decided to switch to qemu and everything works perfectly now

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[SOLVED] VMware's Virtual Network Editor is not starting

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thank you both