Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of VmwareServerInstallEL5


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Apr 21, 2010 11:54:24 PM (14 years ago)
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  • VmwareServerInstallEL5

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     1== VMware Server 2.0.2 Installation on CentOS 5, RHEL 5 ==
     2
     3VMware 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.
     4
     5All the problems were caused by incompatible glibc version that was introduced with EL 5.4.
     6
     7|| CentOS || Glibc || Compatible with VMware Server 2.0.x ||
     8|| 5.3 || 2.5-34 ||  yes  ||
     9|| 5.'''4''' || 2.5-'''42''' ||  '''no'''  ||
     10|| 5.'''5''' || 2.5-'''49''' ||  '''no'''  ||
     11
     12When 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.
     13
     14{{{
     15# uname -srm
     16Linux 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 x86_64
     17# cat /etc/redhat-release
     18CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
     19#
     20#
     21# cd ~/RPMS
     22# wget http://vault.centos.org/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS/glibc-2.5-34.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
     23#
     24# rpm -i VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.rpm
     25#
     26# mkdir /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6
     27# cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6
     28# rpm2cpio ~/RPMS/glibc-2.5-34.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm | \
     29    cpio -idm ./lib64/libc-2.5.so ./lib64/libc.so.6
     30#
     31# ls -l /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6/lib64
     32total 1672
     33-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1707512 Aug 13  2009 libc-2.5.so
     34lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      11 May 19 20:08 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.5.so
     35#
     36#
     37# cp -a /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware.orig
     38# vi /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware
     39# diff -u /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware.orig /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware
     40--- /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware.orig        2010-05-19 20:01:22.000000000 -0700
     41+++ /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware     2010-05-19 21:21:55.000000000 -0700
     42@@ -880,6 +880,7 @@
     43 
     44 # Start host agent
     45 vmware_start_hostd() {
     46+   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6/lib64
     47    vmware_bg_exec "`vmware_product_name` Host Agent" \
     48       "$vmdb_answer_SBINDIR/vmware-hostd" -a -d -u "$vmware_etc_dir/hostd/config.xml"
     49 }
     50#
     51#
     52# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
     53}}}