Re: Help to get VmWare run!!

[Dean Hamstead <dean@bong.com.au>]

you would most likely need to run vmware in a proper chroot
the other problem is kernel modules, im not sure if they work
for 64bit kernels.

Dean

dclemen wrote:
> Hi I have problem to get work VmWare. I read some post and try these
> solutions, but I don't get to work it.
>
> I have AMD64 system and have ia32-libs package installed. Has VmWare
> sources in "/usr/local/src/vmware-distrib" directory, and
> vmware-any-any-update96 path on
> "/usr/local/src/vmware-distrib/vmware-any-any-update96" directory.
>
> # dpkg -l |grep ia32
> ii  ia32-libs                            1.5
>
>
> When run runme.pl in any-any directory I get:
>
> /usr/local/src/vmware-distrib/vmware-any-any-update96# ./runme.pl
> ./update: relocation error: /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol
> _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2
> with link time reference
> ./update: relocation error: /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol
> _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2
> with link time reference
> ./update: relocation error: /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol
> _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2
> with link time reference
> ./update: relocation error: /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol
> _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2
> with link time reference
> VMware modules in "/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source" has been updated.
>
> Before running VMware for the first time after update, you need to
> configure it
> for your running kernel by invoking the following command:
> "/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl". Do you want this script to invoke the
> command for
> you now? [yes]
> ....
> ....
> ....
> At end of this process:
>
> Starting VMware services:
>    Virtual machine monitor                              done
>    Virtual ethernet                                     done
>    Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0                    failed
>    Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background)     done
>    Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background)     done
>    NAT service on /dev/vmnet8    			failed
>
>
> At begin of "runme.pl":
> ./update: relocation error: /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol
> _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2
> with link time reference
>
> but this file exists
> # ls -la --color /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc*
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1253924 2004-12-27 03:41
> /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   18876 2004-12-27 03:41
> /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libcrypt-2.3.2.so
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      17 2005-11-28 09:46
> /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libcrypt.so.1 -> libcrypt-2.3.2.so
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      13 2005-11-28 09:46
> /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.2.so
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks

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