Re: vmware and linuxthreads

["Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 18:49 -0600, A. P. Kennedy wrote:
> >>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey W Baker <jwbaker@acm.org> writes:
> 
>  Jeffrey> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 22:38 -0600, A. P. Kennedy wrote:
>  >> Wow, who said that. Anyway I'm using vmware just fine on AMD64.
>  >> Take a look a the mail archive for details. This has been
>  >> discussed in detail. The trick is gettting, and installing the
>  >> vmware-any-any-update. Make sure you use the latest version. Note
>  >> some strange error comes up when starting vmware just restart the
>  >> VM session and it works fine.
> 
>  Jeffrey> It seems you are running vmware under the 32-bit chroot. Is
>  Jeffrey> that correct? I'm trying to run it natively.
> 
> Currently running natively under debian amd64 gcc-3.4. That is the
> only reason I don't boot into 32 bit anymore. It can be done, and
> works well.

Really?  I only though you were using a chroot because you said so
yourself only a month ago:

On Thu, 2004-11-04 18:03:35 -0600, A. P. Kennedy <spamtree@comcast.net>
wrote in message <87pt2t17s8.fsf@spamtree.comcast.net>:
> kernel is 2.6.8.1 and all needed debs to support vmware are
> installed in my chroot directory, and the correct lib directories are
> placed in /etc/ld.so.conf

So i guess you aren't really in the chroot, but you're using the libs
installed there.  Is that right?

I have temporarily fixed my problem by installing the 32-bit libraries
in a chroot and making sure they appear in /etc/ld.so.conf before the
ia32-libs versions of the same libraries.  So far this has allowed me to
install Windows XP in vmware.  Not sure if it's a good long-term
solution, and if Debian/ia32 every switches to NPTL I'll be up a creek.

APK, what's the output of ldd /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware?  Here's
mine:

        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00000000)
        libdl.so.2 => /var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0x55583000)
        libm.so.6 => /var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x55586000)
        libX11.so.6 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x555aa000)
        libXext.so.6 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x55671000)
        libXi.so.6 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x5567f000)
        libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 => not found
        libglib-1.2.so.0 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x55687000)
        libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x556a8000)
        libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x556ac000)
        libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x556e4000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x5582c000)
        libc.so.6 => /var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x5583b000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x55555000)

-jwb