Hello,
I have tried to compile it without any chroot at all. It does compile,
and the kernel modules (vmmon and vmnet) do insert into the kernel
without a problem. However, binaries are compiled for 32bits system and
they will fail to launch miserably, looking for libpam0.so, which is not
compiled in ia-32libs. If you try to merely install a 32 bits chroot and
then add the lines to the ld.so.conf it will fail as well, because it
seems some links to libraries are hard coded, i don't know why, it
doesn't try to search for the libs in the ia-32 system...
And the vmware binaries look for their libs in /lib. debian is hell as
well, as all the 64 libs are actually in /lib and not /lib64. So there's
a problem here. :/
I then made an ia-32 chroot, and tried to compile the vmware modules in
there.
Helplessly, it fails : the compiler says, when trying to compile the
vmmon module :
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
cc1: error: code model `kernel' not supported in the 32 bit mode
Too bad.
Something to try would be to compile those modules within the 64bits
system and then install them into the kernel modules root, then tamper
the vmware-config.pl script in the ia32 chroot so that it skips trying
to compile them. Since you can compile the modules within the 64bits
system without a problem, that should be okay. You merely would need to
copy the modules to the correct directory under the chroot, I guess.
Or, simply bind /lib/modules to /path/to/ia32/chroot/lib/modules (which
is what i did)
And then, let the configuration process do its job. Perhaps it can work
that way in the ia32 chroot.
I'm lazy, so i didn't try it yet, but perhaps later i'll try, and if it
works or does not work i'll report it in this thread.
See you
JCM
Dean Hamstead wrote:
you would most likely need to run vmware in a proper chroot
the other problem is kernel modules, im not sure if they work
for 64bit kernels.
Dean
dclemen wrote:
Hi I have problem to get work VmWare. I read some post and try these
solutions, but I don't get to work it.
I have AMD64 system and have ia32-libs package installed. Has VmWare
sources in "/usr/local/src/vmware-distrib" directory, and
vmware-any-any-update96 path on
"/usr/local/src/vmware-distrib/vmware-any-any-update96" directory.
# dpkg -l |grep ia32
ii ia32-libs 1.5
When run runme.pl in any-any directory I get:
/usr/local/src/vmware-distrib/vmware-any-any-update96# ./runme.pl
./update: relocation error: /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol
_dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2
with link time reference
./update: relocation error: /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol
_dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2
with link time reference
./update: relocation error: /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol
_dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2
with link time reference
./update: relocation error: /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol
_dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2
with link time reference
VMware modules in "/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source" has been updated.
Before running VMware for the first time after update, you need to
configure it
for your running kernel by invoking the following command:
"/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl". Do you want this script to invoke the
command for
you now? [yes]
....
....
....
At end of this process:
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 failed
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 failed
At begin of "runme.pl":
./update: relocation error: /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol
_dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2
with link time reference
but this file exists
# ls -la --color /emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1253924 2004-12-27 03:41
/emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18876 2004-12-27 03:41
/emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libcrypt-2.3.2.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2005-11-28 09:46
/emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libcrypt.so.1 -> libcrypt-2.3.2.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-11-28 09:46
/emul/ia32-linux/lib/tls/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.2.so
Any ideas?
Thanks
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