Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of VmwareServerInstallEL5

Timestamp:

Apr 21, 2010 11:54:24 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

iva

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VmwareServerInstallEL5

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+== VMware Server 2.0.2 Installation on CentOS 5, RHEL 5 ==
+
+VMware Server 2.0.2 was released on 26-Oct-2009. VMware Server 2.0.x worked well with EL 5.3, but since RHEL 5.4 became available in September, 2009, the vmware-hostd process began crashing, rendering the whole product pretty much unusable. This issue was reported in postings on VMware Communities (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1364852), and then on CentOS Bug Tracker (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884) as well.
+
+All the problems were caused by incompatible glibc version that was introduced with EL 5.4.
+
+|| CentOS || Glibc || Compatible with VMware Server 2.0.x ||
+|| 5.3 || 2.5-34 ||  yes  ||
+|| 5.'''4''' || 2.5-'''42''' ||  '''no'''  ||
+|| 5.'''5''' || 2.5-'''49''' ||  '''no'''  ||
+
+When installing VMware Server 2.0.2 on CentOS (RHEL) >= 5.4 one has to provide / force VMware Server to use older version of the {{{libc.so.6}}} shared library.
+
+{{{
+# uname -srm
+Linux 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 x86_64
+# cat /etc/redhat-release 
+CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
+#
+#
+# cd ~/RPMS
+# wget http://vault.centos.org/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS/glibc-2.5-34.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
+#
+# rpm -i VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.rpm
+#
+# mkdir /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6
+# cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6
+# rpm2cpio ~/RPMS/glibc-2.5-34.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm | \
+    cpio -idm ./lib64/libc-2.5.so ./lib64/libc.so.6
+#
+# ls -l /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6/lib64
+total 1672
+-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1707512 Aug 13  2009 libc-2.5.so
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      11 May 19 20:08 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.5.so
+#
+#
+# cp -a /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware.orig
+# vi /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware
+# diff -u /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware.orig /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware
+--- /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware.orig        2010-05-19 20:01:22.000000000 -0700
++++ /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware     2010-05-19 21:21:55.000000000 -0700
+@@ -880,6 +880,7 @@
+ 
+ # Start host agent
+ vmware_start_hostd() {
++   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6/lib64
+    vmware_bg_exec "`vmware_product_name` Host Agent" \
+       "$vmdb_answer_SBINDIR/vmware-hostd" -a -d -u "$vmware_etc_dir/hostd/config.xml"
+ }
+#
+#
+# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
+}}}