From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 18 18:47:28 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 EF82416A418 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:47:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dyioulos@firstbhph.com) Received: from mail1.firstbhph.com (mail1.firstbhph.com [67.108.218.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A924813C468 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:47:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dyioulos@firstbhph.com) X-First1-MailScanner-Watermark: 1203965237.88318@g3aKsC9weT91NLlETIupjg Received: from mail1.firstbhph.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.firstbhph.com (8.14.2/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m1IIlEak006364 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:47:14 -0500 From: "Dimitri Yioulos" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:47:14 -0500 Message-Id: <20080218183700.M56906@firstbhph.com> In-Reply-To: <200802181329.29457.john@jnielsen.net> References: <20080217180601.M82827@firstbhph.com> <200802172244.17932.john@jnielsen.net> <20080218172746.M31404@firstbhph.com> <200802181329.29457.john@jnielsen.net> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.53 X-OriginatingIP: 24.91.150.12 (dyioulos) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Synonym: Copied by Synonym (http://www.modulo.ro/synonym) to: archive@firstbhph.com X-First1-MailScanner-Information: Please contact First 1 Financial Corporation for more information X-First1-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-First1-MailScanner-MCPCheck: MCP-Clean, MCP-Checker (score=0, required 1) X-MailScanner-From: dyioulos@firstbhph.com X-MailScanner-To: archive@firstbhph.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools 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: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:47:29 -0000 On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:29:28 -0500, John Nielsen wrote > On Monday 18 February 2008 12:31:37 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:44:17 -0500, John Nielsen wrote > > > > > On Sunday 17 February 2008 01:06:28 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > > > > I'm not sure whether to have posted this here or on a VMware list; > > > > apologies if I'm in the wrong place. > > > > > > > > The other day, I did a fresh install of v. 7RC2 from the minimal CD > > > > on a CentOS 5.1 box running VMware server 1.0.4. I had previously > > > > successfully installed v. 6.2, and upgraded to 6.3 on the same box. > > > > All has gone well, except for the installation of VMware Tools. > > > > Getting the Tools tarball and extracting the requisite files was > > > > trivial. However, when I try to run Vmware-Config-Tools.pl, I get a > > > > message saying that the program must be run on a virtual machine. > > > > Well, it is. Is there a needed FBSD package I'm missing (the Tools > > > > install program doesn't complain about it). A known issue, or bug, > > > > maybe? Or is VMware support not yet enabled? Help would be > > > > greatly appreciated. > > > > > > I just went through almost the same thing, installing FreeBSD 7 under > > > VMware Workstation on Windows. The config-tools script has a > > > hard-coded version check which looks for libc.so.6 under /lib only. > > > Rather than mess with the script, I just hard-linked the library > > > from /usr/local/lib/compat (where it was installed by the compat6x > > > port). Seemed to work fine after that. You'll need to be careful not > > > to erase it if you ever run "make delete-old-libs", though. > > > > Thanks for the response! > > > > A symlink won't do for the above? > > Try it and see! I think I decided on a hard link since the script uses > something like "if [ -f /lib/libc.so.6 ]" so it's looking only for a > regular file and not a symlink. > > JN > > -- Hmm, when I try to hard-link ("ln /usr/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6 libc.so.6"), I get "ln: ./libc.so.6: Cross-device link". But, when I do a symlink, which takes, I get "/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "ld-linux.so.2" not found, required by "libc.so.6"" when i run vmware-config-tools.pl. So, I symlink ld-linux.so.2, and run tools. Then, I get "/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Undefined symbol "__stdoutp" referenced from COPY relocation in /usr/local/sbin/vmware-checkvm". Arrgh. Any other ideas? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.