My experience wasn't quite so smooth - posted here in case it can save someone a little time. I started with VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.tar.gz. The VMWare install didn't encounter any difficulties other than the warning about the correct version of libraries and the ldd output.
However, starting vmware produced: /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I hand-lib'ed a copy of libz into my /emul/ia32-linux/ directories: $ cd /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/ $ sudo cp -p /var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.2 . $ sudo ln -s libz.so.1.2.2 libz.so.1 $ sudo ldconfig At this point, VMWare would start, but would produce the error "Unable to connect to peer process" when powering on a guest. The ldd -v output for the vmware binary was pretty scary at this point, so I decided to update /etc/ld.so.conf to reference the libraries in my ia32 chroot. $ cat /etc/ld.so.conf /usr/X11R6/lib # chroot libs /var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib /var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/lib /var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/X11R6/lib /var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/local/lib $ sudo ldconfig After this, I am able to run vmware from my 64-bit shell (i.e., not inside a chroot), and start my guest machines. So far now problems, but I just now got it going. Since VMWare seems to be a FAQ, and because it doesn't appear as simple as a base pure64 install (after all, vmware is still a 32-bit binary), maybe we could setup a wiki specifically for VMWare. If not on alioth, then maybe here: http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianAMD64Faq Cheers, tony Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > Yes, I agree here. You don't even need chroot with version 5. It won't > work with windowmaker gui though. > Gavin > > > On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 11:35 +0100, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: > >>I have vmware 5 running on Debian amd64 sid. I had no issues what so >>ever installing it. It installed and worked perfectly fine from the >>first try. I didn't even have to install any additional patches and >>software. >> >>-- >>Andrei >> >> >>On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 16:30 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: >> >>>I have Sarge-anm64, running, using alioth net-install iso & package >>>archives. I was able to work through the missing libz.so.1 & >>>libXrender.so.1 isssue, copied them from my ia32 Sarge box. >>> >>>Vmware configures the modules needed, vmnet& vmmon, but fails to power >>>on the VM, either an existing one or a new one. VMware v5.0. >>> >>>There have been some references to this found using Google but nothing I >>>can figure out as to the problem & solution. Hopefully someone has >>>VMware running on Debian-amd64. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
