Re: Vmware

[tony mancill <tony@mancill.com>]

My experience wasn't quite so smooth - posted here in case it can save
someone a little time.  I started with
VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.tar.gz.  The VMWare install didn't encounter
any difficulties other than the warning about the correct version of
libraries and the ldd output.

However, starting vmware produced:

/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries:
libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I hand-lib'ed a copy of libz into my /emul/ia32-linux/ directories:

$ cd /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/
$ sudo cp -p /var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.2 .
$ sudo ln -s libz.so.1.2.2 libz.so.1
$ sudo ldconfig

At this point, VMWare would start, but would produce the error "Unable to
connect to peer process" when powering on a guest.

The ldd -v output for the vmware binary was pretty scary at this point, so I
decided to update /etc/ld.so.conf to reference the libraries in my ia32 chroot.

$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/X11R6/lib
# chroot libs
/var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib
/var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/lib
/var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/X11R6/lib
/var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/local/lib
$ sudo ldconfig

After this, I am able to run vmware from my 64-bit shell (i.e., not inside a
chroot), and start my guest machines.  So far now problems, but I just now
got it going.

Since VMWare seems to be a FAQ, and because it doesn't appear as simple as a
base pure64 install (after all, vmware is still a 32-bit binary), maybe we
could setup a wiki specifically for VMWare.  If not on alioth, then maybe
here:  http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianAMD64Faq

Cheers,
tony


Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
> Yes, I agree here.  You don't even need chroot with version 5.  It won't
> work with windowmaker gui though.
> Gavin
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 11:35 +0100, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote:
> 
>>I have vmware 5 running on Debian amd64 sid. I had no issues what so
>>ever installing it. It installed and worked perfectly fine from the
>>first try. I didn't even have to install any additional patches and
>>software.
>>
>>--
>>Andrei
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 16:30 -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
>>
>>>I have Sarge-anm64, running, using alioth net-install iso & package 
>>>archives. I was able to work through the missing libz.so.1 & 
>>>libXrender.so.1  isssue, copied them from my ia32 Sarge box.
>>>
>>>Vmware configures the modules needed, vmnet& vmmon, but fails to power 
>>>on the VM, either an existing one or a new one. VMware v5.0.
>>>
>>>There have been some references to this found using Google but nothing I 
>>>can figure out as to the problem & solution. Hopefully someone has 
>>>VMware running on Debian-amd64.