VMware Workstation fails to unpack tar archive

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First attempt at installing VMware on Nixos. While this doesn’t look like a NixOS-specific error, I was wondering if someone knew how to work this out:

error: builder for '/nix/store/31aw51mndcaagm6v1v3p4mpqy3cxrz7i-source.drv' failed with exit code 1;
       last 11 log lines:
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       > trying https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/17.6.1/24319023/linux/core/VMware-Workstation-17.6.1-24319023.x86_64.bundle.tar
       >   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
       >                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
       > 100   167  100   167    0     0   1248      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1255
       > 100  354k    0  354k    0     0   685k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  685k
       > unpacking source archive /build/VMware-Workstation-17.6.1-24319023.x86_64.bundle.tar
       > tar: This does not look like a tar archive
       > tar: Skipping to next header
       > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
       > do not know how to unpack source archive /build/VMware-Workstation-17.6.1-24319023.x86_64.bundle.tar
       For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/31aw51mndcaagm6v1v3p4mpqy3cxrz7i-source.drv'.
error:
       … while calling the 'head' builtin
         at /nix/store/sr3gj4wcx3kwy0q5gcxl49ja733bqm7b-source/lib/attrsets.nix:1574:11:
         1573|         || pred here (elemAt values 1) (head values) then
         1574|           head values
             |           ^
         1575|         else

       … while evaluating the attribute 'value'
         at /nix/store/sr3gj4wcx3kwy0q5gcxl49ja733bqm7b-source/lib/modules.nix:816:9:
          815|     in warnDeprecation opt //
          816|       { value = addErrorContext "while evaluating the option `${showOption loc}':" value;
             |         ^
          817|         inherit (res.defsFinal') highestPrio;

       … while evaluating the option `system.build.toplevel':

       … while evaluating definitions from `/nix/store/sr3gj4wcx3kwy0q5gcxl49ja733bqm7b-source/nixos/modules/system/activation/top-level.nix':

       … while evaluating the option `system.systemBuilderArgs':

       … while evaluating definitions from `/nix/store/sr3gj4wcx3kwy0q5gcxl49ja733bqm7b-source/nixos/modules/system/activation/activatable-system.nix':

       … while evaluating the option `system.activationScripts.etc.text':

       … while evaluating definitions from `/nix/store/sr3gj4wcx3kwy0q5gcxl49ja733bqm7b-source/nixos/modules/system/etc/etc-activation.nix':

       … while evaluating definitions from `/nix/store/sr3gj4wcx3kwy0q5gcxl49ja733bqm7b-source/nixos/modules/system/etc/etc.nix':

       … while evaluating the option `environment.etc."vmware/config".source':

       … while evaluating definitions from `/nix/store/sr3gj4wcx3kwy0q5gcxl49ja733bqm7b-source/nixos/modules/system/etc/etc.nix':

       … while evaluating the option `environment.etc."vmware/config".text':

       … while evaluating definitions from `/nix/store/sr3gj4wcx3kwy0q5gcxl49ja733bqm7b-source/nixos/modules/virtualisation/vmware-host.nix':

       (stack trace truncated; use '--show-trace' to show the full, detailed trace)

       error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/ilxrwglm1v7rxpw6cxwhk2q7hrl6scfw-vmware-workstation-17.6.1.drv' failed to build

All I did was add virtualisation.vmware.host.enable = true; and rebuilt the system. What as I missing? FWIW, I got Virtualbox to work right away.

EDIT: looks like this issue has already been reported on Github: Build failure: vmware-workstation · Issue #392841 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub