[CentOS] VMWare error: Use of uninitialized value in string eq

[Jeff Larsen]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
>  I hope anyone can help me with this. I'm trying to get vmware to play
>  along nicely on CentOS 5.1 x64, but I get errors when I try and start a
>  vmx image, or list them. This the the error:
>
>  [root at backup vmware-mui-distrib]# vmware-cmd -l
>  Use of uninitialized value in string eq at
>  /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/VMware/VmPerl.pm
>  line 114.

Indeed I have seen this. It happens when you run VMware on a 64 bit
Linux platform. I have commented out (with a #) both lines 114 and 115
in VmPerl.pm with no ill effects. I tried to figure out the cause, but
I am not  perl guy, so I gave up and went for the easy fix.

-- 
Jeff