[CentOS] VMware Server 2.0.1 On CentOS 5

[Les Mikesell]

Max Hetrick wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> That's actually pretty strange because the glibc update in 5.4 will break VMware 
>> Server 2.0.1.  Have you rebooted or restarted vmware since the update?  if you 
>> haven't, don't until you look up the fix...
> 
> Yeah, I've rebooted my instances. My one instance is my laptop which 
> gets restarted twice a day actually. I've not had any issues at all. 
> Everything has been running great.
> 
> I'm running this RPM from VMware:
> 
> VMware-server-2.0.1-156745
> 
> So, I'm not sure. Is it something related to x86_64 systems only then? 
> All mine are x86, and I see a lot of references to x86_64 here. Just a 
> thought.

No, I have it on an x86 box and had to use the workaround here:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1364852
/lib/libc-2.5.so is actually still available after the upgrade so you 
don't have to copy it from another system - it just isn't the target of 
the libc.so.6 symlink anymore.

Someone reported different behavior on core duo's vs. xeons which is 
probably what you are seeing, but eventually both crashed.

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