[Centos] VMWare problems on CentOS 3.3 x86-64
Will Dinkel
wdinkel at teamhpc.com
Fri Dec 10 14:54:34 UTC 2004
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
>
>
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Will Dinkel
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