Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 08:58:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "Georg-W. Koltermann" <gwk@rahn-koltermann.de> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: re: vmware2 patch for -CURRENT Message-ID: <16534.16883.828012.672187@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <1083538230.56810.5.camel@localhost.muc.eu.mscsoftware.com> References: <16531.64457.287692.950839@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1083538230.56810.5.camel@localhost.muc.eu.mscsoftware.com>
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Georg-W. Koltermann writes: > Am Sa, den 01.05.2004 schrieb Andrew Gallatin um 21:34: > > > o - linux-base 8.x is too new to run vmware2. Due to a change in the > > nice ABI in glibc, if you run vmware2 with newer libs, it will > > crash, complaining that AIO is not implemented. > > There is a patch from VMWare for that. It's called update42, you can > google for "update42 vmware". You unpack the tar, compile the little C > program and run it giving the installed VMWare binary, > /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware, as a command line agument. It patches > the binary so that it runs with Linux8 userland. Awesome! I haven't tried it, but I welcome an end to the linux shared-lib hell that running linux_base version 6.1 was creating. Thanks for the pointer.. Drew
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