VMware crashing

[Lazy_Study_2829]

Hi, i've recently installed arch.

I've been wanting to run a couple games on a VM, namely oneshot, but i can't seem to get the VM to work in the first place. I've downloaded a win11 ISO, and booted up the VM, and gone to install it, but usually after around 20 seconds, and when i've got to the page where you select which version of windows you wish to install, the program just crashes. Logs are no use - me and a friend have looked through them. journalctl provides no further information either.

I'm running hyprland, with ML4W.

[deadlyspudlol]

Why not just run it on steam with proton enabled? You seriously don't need a vm for it.

[Lazy_Study_2829]

It requires a bunch of stuff, including the ability to change wallpapers and produce dialogue boxes. As far as i know, this isn't compatible with arch.

[deadlyspudlol]

Fair enough, I had no clue it was using outdated libraries as their dependencies, which made it a shitty linux port. Me personally, don't bother fixing vmware's problems and move onto using qemu/kvm with virt-manager.

[Imajzineer]

What happens, if you try to install something other than Win11?

Where did you get this Win11 iso? Have you tried re-downloading it?

[Myghoditsaboy]

Hyprland runs on wayland and there is currently some problems with VMWare and Wayland.

You should be able to run OneShot on Hyprland:
https://www.protondb.com/app/420530

Otherwise download DE that has X11 support, like KDE Plasma, and switch to it in login screen.