VMware + Perl failure.
Hi all,
I installed the free Server on Debian AMD64. This went without any
problems. The problem begins when I start "vmware &". The VMware
Server Console (e.x.p build-22874) pops-up and show me a "Connect to
Host" dialog. When I do a connect to localhost I get an error message:
"The local VMware Server is not installed, or is not currently running.
Make sure that the server is properly installed and try again."
I think it has to do with Perl
(/usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux) and this AMD64
machine. I read somewhere to install some Perl 32 bit stuff, just like
ia32-libs, but I can't find which package this could be.
I posted on the VMware forum but I am not getting an answer.
I followed the instructions on this site:
http://blog.robinz.info/archives/2006/03/17/install-vmware-server-on-debian-amd64em64t/
It is installed and running:
root 10482 0.0 0.0 1352 160 pts/3 S 20:56 0:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge
-d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid /dev/vmnet0 eth0
/tmp/vmware/ui-****.log
========================
Apr 30 20:18:15: vmui| Log for VMware Server pid=7833 version=e.x.p
build=build-22874 option=BETA
Apr 30 20:18:16: vmui| Gdk: locale not supported by Xlib
Apr 30 20:18:16: vmui| Gdk: can not set locale modifiers
Apr 30 20:18:16: vmui| Using log file /tmp/vmware-janux/ui-7833.log
Apr 30 20:18:16: vmui| HAL04LoadHALLibraries: Could not dlopen libhal.so.0.
Apr 30 20:18:16: vmui| HAL05LoadHALLibraries: Could not dlopen libhal.so.1.
Apr 30 20:18:18: vmui| SMBIOS: can't open /dev/mem
Apr 30 20:18:18: vmui| VmhsHostInfoPopulateSystem: Could not get
information from smbios to populate VMDB.
Apr 30 20:18:18: vmui| HOSTINFO: Seeing AMD CPU, numCoresPerCPU 1
numThreadsPerCore 1.
Apr 30 20:18:18: vmui| HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 1
total cores, and 1 logical CPUs.
/var/log/vmware/vmware-ccagent.log
========================================
Apr 30 20:18:22: app| Log for VMware Server pid=7840 version=e.x.p
build=build-22874 option=BETA
Apr 30 20:18:22: app| Program: /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd
Apr 30 20:18:22: app| CWD: /var/log/vmware
Apr 30 20:18:22: app| Init script: /usr/lib/vmware/serverd/init.pl
Apr 30 20:18:23: app| Perl error 2 during parsing of files.
Apr 30 20:18:23: app| eval error: Can't load
'/usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/VMware/HConfig/HConfig.so'
for module VMware::HConfig:
/usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/VMware/HConfig/HConfig.so:
invalid ELF header at
/usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/DynaLoader.pm line 169.
Apr 30 20:18:23: app|
Apr 30 20:18:23: app| at
/usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/HConfig/CommonConstant.pm
line 18
Apr 30 20:18:23: app| BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/lib/vmware/perl5/site_perl/5.005/VMware/VMServerd.pm line 20.
Apr 30 20:18:23: app| BEGIN failed--compilation aborted
Apr 30 20:18:23: app| VMServerd Panic: Could not initialize Perl script handler.
Apr 30 20:18:23: app|
Apr 30 20:18:23: app| Backtrace:
Apr 30 20:18:23: app| Backtrace[0] 0xffffa218 eip 0x80cdef1
Apr 30 20:18:23: app| Backtrace[1] 0xffffc298 eip 0x8078ce5
Thank in advance,
Jan.
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