From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 23:16:54 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 45889106564A for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:16:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kevin@kevinkempterllc.com) Received: from outbound-mail-105.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-105.bluehost.com [69.89.18.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0431E8FC14 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:16:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kevin@kevinkempterllc.com) Received: (qmail 19843 invoked by uid 0); 4 Jun 2008 23:16:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box54.bluehost.com) (69.89.20.54) by outboundproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 4 Jun 2008 23:16:52 -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:Mime-Version:Subject:Date:References:X-Mailer:X-Identified-User:DomainKey-Status; b=VauND+mKmfbMZkSwwcudmv0fRAbNnS9tud+q2PD9hcsWeMh4FlXj/tJ4aCDo/kb2Ro9pHRZ76KdERae3Xsx52o7XFmGpB+1hDuUrCqN/U7PM6AeTvKfps8Ql85z/Dsn/; 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 1K42Dr-0005t9-PF; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:16:52 -0600 Message-Id: From: kevin kempter To: Manolis Kiagias In-Reply-To: <4846CB1E.3060107@otenet.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:16:52 -0600 References: <4846CB1E.3060107@otenet.gr> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Vmware/Xorg blues (was: 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 23:16:54 -0000 On Jun 4, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> Anyone have any thoughts? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance... >> >> >> > > Funny thing, I was doing the same steps today in vmware > workstation ;) Had the same problems, and the following is the > solution: > > Install the compat6x port. Seems the vmware tools are for the 6.X > version of FreeBSD, not native 7. > > As root: > > cd /usr/ports/misc/compat6x > make install clean > > Also, create the following symbolic link (This is where vmware > searches for the library): > > ln -s /usr/local/lib/compat/libc.so.6 /lib Thanks for the advice, this allowed me to install the vmware tools. I had the vm in such a state that I thought it best to start from scratch, so I did the following: 1) installed freeBSD7 into a new VM 2) Followed the steps above to install the compat6x lib and created the link to /lib 3) installed the vmware-tools 4) ran the vmware-config (/usr/local/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl) 5) installed kde via pkg_add -r kde 6) created a .xinitrc for root like this: echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc 7) tried to start kde by running startx and I get an error that the driver "vmware" in the xorg config file does not exist. I've attached the log from my attempt to start kde (Xorg.0.log) - from /var/log and my xorg.conf file (from /etc/X11) Thanks in advance for any help... /Kevin