Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:44:17 -0500 From: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Dimitri Yioulos <dyioulos@firstbhph.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools Message-ID: <200802172244.17932.john@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20080217180601.M82827@firstbhph.com> References: <20080217180601.M82827@firstbhph.com>
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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. JN
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