[Centos] VMWare problems on CentOS 3.3 x86-64
Ryan Rothert
ryan at rothert.comSat Dec 11 02:10:32 UTC 2004
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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 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/centos Will Dinkel Chief Systems Engineer Team HPC, Inc. 785-542-2135 x304 wdinkel at teamhpc.com http://www.teamhpc.com
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