Installing VMware Workstation on system with OpenRC

Steps

1. If you are using AUR helper such as yay, pikaur or other, just install packages vmware-keymaps, vmware-openrc, vmware-workstation-openrc and you are done. Otherwise, if you are like me and prefer doing this stuff manually, proceed with the guide.
2. In your projects directory, create folder VMware and clone a few AUR repositories to it:

   mkdir VMware && cd VMware
   git clone --depth 1 https://aur.archlinux.org/vmware-keymaps
   git clone --depth 1 https://aur.archlinux.org/vmware-openrc
   git clone --depth 1 https://aur.archlinux.org/vmware-workstation-openrc
   

3. Generate package files and install them (order matters, installation is interactive):

   cd vmware-keymaps && makepkg -si && cd -
   cd vmware-workstation-openrc && makepkg -si && cd -
   cd vmware-openrc && makepkg -si && cd -
   

4. Add all vmware services to autostart:

   rc-update add vmware default
   rc-update add vmware-usbarbitrator default
   rc-update add vmware-networks default
   rc-update add vmware-networks-configuration default
   

5. Now, you should just reboot. Do not launch VMware application or manually start services.

Useful links

• Reddit