From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 18 03:44:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30D316A419 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:44:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2BC13C442 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:44:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: from [192.168.5.128] (jn@stealth.jnielsen.net [74.218.226.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m1I3iIm6014907; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:44:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:44:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080217180601.M82827@firstbhph.com> In-Reply-To: <20080217180601.M82827@firstbhph.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802172244.17932.john@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Dimitri Yioulos Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:44:56 -0000 On Sunday 17 February 2008 01:06:28 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > I'm not sure whether to have posted this here or on a VMware list; > apologies if I'm in the wrong place. > > The other day, I did a fresh install of v. 7RC2 from the minimal CD on > a CentOS 5.1 box running VMware server 1.0.4. I had previously > successfully installed v. 6.2, and upgraded to 6.3 on the same box. > All has gone well, except for the installation of VMware Tools. > Getting the Tools tarball and extracting the requisite files was > trivial. However, when I try to run Vmware-Config-Tools.pl, I get a > message saying that the program must be run on a virtual machine. > Well, it is. Is there a needed FBSD package I'm missing (the Tools > install program doesn't complain about it). A known issue, or bug, > maybe? Or is VMware support not yet enabled? Help would be greatly > appreciated. I just went through almost the same thing, installing FreeBSD 7 under VMware Workstation on Windows. The config-tools script has a hard-coded version check which looks for libc.so.6 under /lib only. Rather than mess with the script, I just hard-linked the library from /usr/local/lib/compat (where it was installed by the compat6x port). Seemed to work fine after that. You'll need to be careful not to erase it if you ever run "make delete-old-libs", though. JN