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AdrianTM

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Registered: 2008-04-01

Posts: 18

VMWare-server in 64 bit

Sorry I don't speak German

I set up Arch to play with it and I've been impressed, it's a pretty nice distro. I set up everything that I had working in Debian Sid (even though for Picasa I had to set up a 32 bit chroot environment) however I can't install VMware-server, in comparison it's pretty trivial to set it up in Sid...

Anyway, I've tried to set it up in 32 bit chroot and that didn't work, the install seems successful but it doesn't start. I assume it's not possible to run it in chroot, I'm not sure what are chroot limitation, maybe one cannot install kernel modules?

In 64 bit I had a problem to get all the 32-bit libraries, can anyone who has it install assure me it's not a lost case so I will dedicate more time with it? Do you have some advice?

Thanks!

PS. Oh and what's the deal with 32 bit libraries overwriting 64 bit ones... I had bunch a problems with that, apt-get would have never allowed that...

ph0tios

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 126

Re: VMWare-server in 64 bit

32 libraries Overwriting 64....to my knowledge(I'm sure I would have noticed lol) I've never had an issue with that. The only thing I use 32 bit for is a wrapper for flash...other than that everything is pure 64....hm. Maybe something was fudged in the 32bit chroot.

AdrianTM

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Registered: 2008-04-01

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Re: VMWare-server in 64 bit

chroot is set up right, that was before setting up the chroot, I think I installed something from AUR without being sure it's the right thing and somehow that did it, for example I had libxv 32 bit instead of 64 bit so every time I was trying to play something in Miro, Miro was crashing and that was driving me crazy, I discovered that by chance... I saw on some forums that Miro needs Xv...

AdrianTM

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Registered: 2008-04-01

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Re: VMWare-server in 64 bit

But back to my problem, is possible to run vmware-server in 32 bit chroot? If no, why? And how about setting it up in 64 bit, can anyone point me to a how-to?

ph0tios

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 126

Re: VMWare-server in 64 bit

chroot is set up right, that was before setting up the chroot, I think I installed something from AUR without being sure it's the right thing and somehow that did it, for example I had libxv 32 bit instead of 64 bit so every time I was trying to play something in Miro, Miro was crashing and that was driving me crazy, I discovered that by chance... I saw on some forums that Miro needs Xv...

Wow, that is a little discouraging to hear. I hope that isn't a common occurrence...as I use AUR and ABS quite frequently....hmm, I'll definitely be a little more meticulous when using those from now on.

AdrianTM

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Registered: 2008-04-01

Posts: 18

Re: VMWare-server in 64 bit

Maybe I messed something up that's not impossible, especially considering that I've been using Arch for only couple of days... but again apt-get would have never let me do stupid things like that. I was wondering how pacman is so FAST, maybe it doesn't do all the checks that apt does... I am only sorry I didn't keep notes so now I'm not sure what went wrong and I can't report the bug (if there's a bug...)

Ambi

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From: Warsaw, Poland

Registered: 2007-11-29

Posts: 44

Re: VMWare-server in 64 bit

there is vmware-server PKGBUILD in AUR (works with 32bit and 64bit environment). Isn't it what you want?

Last edited by Ambi (2008-04-09 15:30:31)

AdrianTM

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Registered: 2008-04-01

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Re: VMWare-server in 64 bit

I get this error:

=> Building and installing package
==> ERROR: vmware-server-modules is not available for the 'x86_64' architecture.
    Note that many packages may need a line added to their ./PKGBUILD
    such as arch=('x86_64').

Should it work if I add arch=('x86_64')? Why is it not added by default?

Ambi

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From: Warsaw, Poland

Registered: 2007-11-29

Posts: 44

Re: VMWare-server in 64 bit

I've made a mistake, this PKGBUILD is not prepared for Arch64. Maintainer seems not to be using Arch64. Probably he cannot test this package on x86_64 architecture and PKGBUILD needs some more changes to run under x86 arch. It is still possible, but you would have to get some 32bit libraries.

I have found similar topic in ArchWiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _on_Arch64

I was using vmware-workstation package from AUR, you may be interested in it. You would have to install lib32-libxtst package from pacman before using it (maybe installing this package makes vmware-server to run under x86_64 architecture...).

AdrianTM

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Registered: 2008-04-01

Posts: 18

Re: VMWare-server in 64 bit

Yes, that makes sense, building modules for 64bit kernel and the rest install in 32 chroot, however.... vmware doesn't compile for 2.6.24 kernel and the patch suggested on Arch Wiki comes with a big warning "this is an ugly hack" so I will let it be for now.