FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

[Dimitri Yioulos]

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?

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