Hi folks, I'm hoping someone can help with a problem I'm having getting VMWare to work on CentOS 3.3 (x86-64). I recently downloaded VMWare workstation 4.5 (not sure of exact version number but its the latest version as of yesterday). I was hoping to run CentOS as my main OS and then use VMWare to still support Windows XP machines and run the couple of applications which refuse to work properly under Wine. I installed the RPM okay, ran the configuration script fro VMWare, however when it comes to running VMware I get a message about a missing libaray - "ld- linux.so.2". I did a search on the hard disk and couldn't find it. I also couldn't find an RPM package (either source or binary) to install. Everything else on CentOS seems to be going okay, its really fast compared to Suse 9.1 which I was running previously (not sure if thats because I'm running a 64-bit OS or that CentOS doesn't have as much running at once?). Could anyone suggest how I can get this library? Regards, Rob
Rob Beard wrote:> I installed the RPM okay, ran the configuration script fro VMWare, > however when it comes to running VMware I get a message about a > missing libaray - "ld- linux.so.2". > > I did a search on the hard disk and couldn't find it. I also couldn't > find an RPM package (either source or binary) to install.Hmm? Cannot be. Or you broke your system (or something else did). But it probably wouldn't be running then: | [admin at www1 admin]$ ls /lib/ld-linux.so.2 | /lib/ld-linux.so.2 | [admin at www1 admin]$ rpm -qf /lib/ld-linux.so.2 | glibc-2.3.2-95.27 | [admin at www1 admin]$ If vmware really tries to request "ld- linux.so.2" (with the space in it), then vmware is seriously broken. Ralph -- Ralph Angenendt......ra at br-online.de | .."Text processing has made it possible Bayerischer Rundfunk...HA-Multimedia | ....to right-justify any idea, even one Rundfunkplatz 1........80300 M?nchen | .which cannot be justified on any other Tl:089.5900.16023..Fx:089.5900.16240 | ..........grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20041210/19d969a2/attachment.sig>
Your system does have an ld-linux installed, it's just the 64-bit version from glibc x86_64: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Looks like VMWare needs the 32-bit ld-linux.so.2, which comes in glibc i686. Execute "yum install glibc.i686". Hopefully that'll get you going. On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 04:35, Rob Beard wrote:> Hi folks, > > I'm hoping someone can help with a problem I'm having getting VMWare to work > on CentOS 3.3 (x86-64). > > I recently downloaded VMWare workstation 4.5 (not sure of exact version number > but its the latest version as of yesterday). I was hoping to run CentOS as my > main OS and then use VMWare to still support Windows XP machines and run the > couple of applications which refuse to work properly under Wine. > > I installed the RPM okay, ran the configuration script fro VMWare, however > when it comes to running VMware I get a message about a missing libaray - "ld- > linux.so.2". > > I did a search on the hard disk and couldn't find it. I also couldn't find an > RPM package (either source or binary) to install. > > Everything else on CentOS seems to be going okay, its really fast compared to > Suse 9.1 which I was running previously (not sure if thats because I'm running > a 64-bit OS or that CentOS doesn't have as much running at once?). > > Could anyone suggest how I can get this library? > > Regards, > > Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centosWill Dinkel Chief Systems Engineer Team HPC, Inc. 785-542-2135 x304 wdinkel at teamhpc.com http://www.teamhpc.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20041210/023d2dde/attachment.sig>
I ran into this same problem with x86-64 and VMWare GSX server, VMWare does not officially support x86-64 yet. The VMWare binaries are 32bit... Ryan -----Original Message----- From: centos-admin at caosity.org [mailto:centos-admin at caosity.org] On Behalf Of Will Dinkel Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 9:55 AM To: Rob Beard Cc: centos at caosity.org Subject: Re: [Centos] VMWare problems on CentOS 3.3 x86-64 Your system does have an ld-linux installed, it's just the 64-bit version from glibc x86_64: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Looks like VMWare needs the 32-bit ld-linux.so.2, which comes in glibc i686. Execute "yum install glibc.i686". Hopefully that'll get you going. On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 04:35, Rob Beard wrote:> Hi folks, > > I'm hoping someone can help with a problem I'm having getting VMWare > to work on CentOS 3.3 (x86-64). > > I recently downloaded VMWare workstation 4.5 (not sure of exact > version number but its the latest version as of yesterday). I was > hoping to run CentOS as my main OS and then use VMWare to still > support Windows XP machines and run the couple of applications whichrefuse to work properly under Wine.> > I installed the RPM okay, ran the configuration script fro VMWare, > however when it comes to running VMware I get a message about a > missing libaray - "ld- linux.so.2". > > I did a search on the hard disk and couldn't find it. I also couldn't> find an RPM package (either source or binary) to install. > > Everything else on CentOS seems to be going okay, its really fast > compared to Suse 9.1 which I was running previously (not sure if thats> because I'm running a 64-bit OS or that CentOS doesn't have as muchrunning at once?).> > Could anyone suggest how I can get this library? > > Regards, > > Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centosWill Dinkel Chief Systems Engineer Team HPC, Inc. 785-542-2135 x304 wdinkel at teamhpc.com http://www.teamhpc.com