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dtjohnst
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 Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject: [solved] amd64 and vmware-server |
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| Code: | | /opt/vmware/server/bin/vmware-config.pl |
yields the following error after configuring network and asking where to store virtual machine files:
| Code: | sh: /opt/vmware/server/lib/bin/vmware-vmx: No such file or directory
Please enter your 20-character serial number. |
I have a serial number, but no matter what I enter, it tells me it's invalid. I think it's related to the fact that vmware-vmx can't run, I did see an old post on ubuntu that asked to apt-get ia32 and various other 32-bit libraries, none of which seem to be in portage. :S The vmware-vmx file exists and it is executable. I've searched the forums here to no avail. Any advice?
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Crymson
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What version vmware is your serial for? Is it the same as your installed version?
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dtjohnst
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VMWare's website says 1.0.x, and I'm running the latest stable from Portage, so 1.0.6.91891.
http://www.vmware.com/download/server/
I'm really starting to feel like either amd64 or maybe hardened is borked. I've never run in to so many packages that don't compile and need workarounds. I've got 2 pending posts here, and at least a half-dozen other issues that Google helped me figure out. I don't "think" it's hardened because I'm finding my issues have a lot of other people with the same problems, only on different distros and those fixes aren't applicable with Gentoo. I might just be better off going with x86, although I was hoping to vritualize Exchange 2008 to test and it needs 64-bit. |
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nativemad
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:08 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
You need to have a multilib installation! Check that you have support for 32bit elf files in the Kernel and those emul-linux-x86 packages installed!
-I once had to reinstall all of those emul-linux packages to get vmware-server running! 
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dtjohnst
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| Hmm. That might fix both my errors here: this one and the one a little further down the page on v86d. Thanks, I'll try it out and report back. |
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dtjohnst
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| I switched to the hardened/amd64/multilib profile, added multilib to USE flags then tried to oneshot the toolchain, failed. Seemed to be related to glibc. Tried to install that with multilib, failed. Removed multilib from use and switched profiles back to hardened/amd64, compiles fine. Is there something I need to install/do beforehand in order to switch to multilib? |
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dtjohnst
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| Hmm, I see you can't switch according to the Gentoo help files. :S THat kinda sucks. Reinstall I guess. |
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nativemad
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you're right! 
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dtjohnst
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Ummm........ok. This is new.
Started a reinstall, not a big deal, it was an empty system. But I'm getting a strange error now. I'm trying to use genkernel to build my initrd because I use nvraid, and when I run | Code: | | genkernel --lvm --dmraid --install initrd |
I get an error: | Code: | * DMRAID: Adding support (compiling binaries)...
bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows.
bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)
It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.
You can use the 'bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.
/bin/tar: Child returned status 2
/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from preview errors
* ERROR: Could not extract dmraid binary cache! |
I tried reinstalling dmraid and device-mapper but that didn't resolve the issue. I don't know where the binary cache is located either to run a -tvv on them. :S
EDIT: Disregard. Found it in /var/cache. It was in fact corrupt, I deleted the dmraid files here and copied them over from /usr/portage/distfiles, then reran genkernel without issue. |
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| Quote: | | I switched to the hardened/amd64/multilib profile, added multilib to USE flags then tried to oneshot the toolchain, failed. Seemed to be related to glibc. Tried to install that with multilib, failed. Removed multilib from use and switched profiles back to hardened/amd64, compiles fine. Is there something I need to install/do beforehand in order to switch to multilib? |
vmware-server (amd64) does not work with hardened-sources>2.6.23.
See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-698452-highlight-vmwareserver.html
for more details.
It runs fine for me on amd64 with gentoo-sources-2.6.25.
I have all the 32 bit libraries that I could find installed. I no longer rember what they are. |
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dtjohnst
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Shoot. That sucks too. I see by that thread (and the subsequent links) that the PaX crew might be fixing it. That's good. I'll keep my fingers crossed for that. |
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