From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 16:48:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86BC31065689 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:48:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kevin@kevinkempterllc.com) Received: from outbound-mail-101.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-101.bluehost.com [69.89.22.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D15A88FC1F for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:48:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kevin@kevinkempterllc.com) Received: (qmail 29331 invoked by uid 0); 4 Jun 2008 16:48:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box54.bluehost.com) (69.89.20.54) by outboundproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 4 Jun 2008 16:48:18 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=kevinkempterllc.com; h=Received:Cc:Message-Id:From:To:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Mime-Version:Subject:Date:References:X-Mailer:X-Identified-User:DomainKey-Status; b=A7tSUpPK2UI+lqTG8imkJNWibmz1SfQTU2yfqxmrVC0DimKsSSk8yefoAzces5U6yY8gkt2eD3VPmthsD0D8PP1Fz5zL7VLrU5Y0tSJPjqS7bg5BTWzACAAK2lmF5CAr; Received: from ip65-46-48-50.z48-46-65.customer.algx.net ([65.46.48.50] helo=hp-6710b-kpatterson.movenetworks.com) by box54.bluehost.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K3w9p-0003S1-O8; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:48:17 -0600 Message-Id: <38CCCAA8-03AF-4425-869A-252D9E87CE35@kevinkempterllc.com> From: kevin kempter To: dex In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:48:18 -0600 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) X-Identified-User: {840:box54.bluehost.com:kevinkem:kevinkempterllc.com} {sentby:smtp auth 65.46.48.50 authed with kevin+kevinkempterllc.com} DomainKey-Status: no signature Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freeBSD7 in a vm (vmware fusion) - Shared object "lib.so.6" not found X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:48:20 -0000 On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:22 AM, dex wrote: > On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:18 PM, kevin kempter wrote: >> Hi All; >> This seems to be more of a lib not found than a vm issue: >> I've done this: >> 1) installed freeBSD 7 in vmware fusion (v 1.1.3) >> 2) selected to install vmware tools from the menu >> 3) logged into the console as root >> 4) mounted the vmware virtual cd >> 5) copied the vmware tools tar.gz file to /tmp >> 6) expanded the vmware tools tar.gz file in /tmp >> 7) cd to the new vmware-toold-distrib dir and ran ./vmware-install.pl >> Then I get this: >> Before running VMware Tools for the first time you need to >> configure it by invoking the following command: "/usr/local/bin/ >> vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want this program to invoke the >> command for you now? [yes] >> >> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "lib.so.6" not found, >> required by "vmware-checkvm" >> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "lib.so.6" not found, >> required by "vmware-checkvm" >> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "lib.so.6" not found, >> required by "vmware-checkvm" >> This configuration program is to be executed in a virtual machine. >> Execution aborted. >> >> I also tried starting KDE and in a Konsole terminal window (as >> root) running /usr/local/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl and I get the >> same results > > Try using the port vmware-guestd. It worked good for me. I'm pretty new to freeBSD. Is port a system command? If I run port at the root prompt I get "port: Command not found" or is is a port that needs to be compiled somewhere in /usr/ports ? Thx in advance