kevin kempter wrote:
On Jun 4, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
kevin kempter wrote:
Hi All;
This seems to be more of a lib not found than a vm issue:
I've done this:
1) installed freeBSD 7 in vmware fusion (v 1.1.3)
2) selected to install vmware tools from the menu
3) logged into the console as root
4) mounted the vmware virtual cd
5) copied the vmware tools tar.gz file to /tmp
6) expanded the vmware tools tar.gz file in /tmp
7) cd to the new vmware-toold-distrib dir and ran ./vmware-install.pl
Then I get this:
Before running VMware Tools for the first time you need to configure
it by invoking the following command:
"/usr/local/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want this program to
invoke the command for you now? [yes]
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "lib.so.6" not found,
required by "vmware-checkvm"
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "lib.so.6" not found,
required by "vmware-checkvm"
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "lib.so.6" not found,
required by "vmware-checkvm"
This configuration program is to be executed in a virtual machine.
Execution aborted.
I also tried starting KDE and in a Konsole terminal window (as root)
running /usr/local/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl and I get the same
results
Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks in advance...
Funny thing, I was doing the same steps today in vmware workstation
;) Had the same problems, and the following is the solution:
Install the compat6x port. Seems the vmware tools are for the 6.X
version of FreeBSD, not native 7.
As root:
cd /usr/ports/misc/compat6x
make install clean
Also, create the following symbolic link (This is where vmware
searches for the library):
ln -s /usr/local/lib/compat/libc.so.6 /lib
Thanks for the advice, this allowed me to install the vmware tools.
I had the vm in such a state that I thought it best to start from
scratch, so I did the following:
1) installed freeBSD7 into a new VM
2) Followed the steps above to install the compat6x lib and created
the link to /lib
3) installed the vmware-tools
4) ran the vmware-config (/usr/local/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl)
5) installed kde via pkg_add -r kde
6) created a .xinitrc for root like this:
echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc
7) tried to start kde by running startx and I get an error that the
driver "vmware" in the xorg config file does not exist.
I've attached the log from my attempt to start kde (Xorg.0.log) - from
/var/log
and my xorg.conf file (from /etc/X11)
Thanks in advance for any help...
/Kevin
Ok, the xorg-vmware driver is not by default selected to be built in the
xorg port, and as the pre-built packages use the default options, you
are simply trying to use a driver you have not installed. As the vmware
driver does not seem to exist as a package, compile it from ports:
cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware
make install clean
And you should be on your way.
However I would suggest you create (and possibly edit) your own
xorg.conf file:
X -configure
(This make get you a blank screen on vmware, it does it to me everytime,
in this case just ssh in from somewhere else and reboot the machine, or
press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE and blindly type 'reboot')
Test your settings with
X -configure /root/xorg.conf.new
Edit the file and make any necessary changes, and move it to the final
location:
mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
You can get more info on all the above in the X11 chapter of the FreeBSD
Handbook, in the configuration section:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
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