vmrc on non 32bit platforms.

[barn]

The vmrc stuff is hardcoded to 32bit, there also doesn't seem to be a 64bit version available from the same URL.

I've stolen the vmware-vmrc-linux-x64.xpi off of my Vcenter, and it works, just frustrating to have to do it all manually and hack the files directly to make it use it.

[rlane]

Excerpts from barn's message of 2011-05-20 17:05:36 -0400:

The vmrc stuff is hardcoded to 32bit, there also doesn't seem to be a 64bit version available from the same URL.

I've stolen the vmware-vmrc-linux-x64.xpi off of my Vcenter, and it works, just frustrating to have to do it all manually and hack the files directly to make it use it.

Originally I installed a 64 bit VMRC if possible, but for some reason that was less reliable than always installing 32 bit. I'll upload a 64-bit VMRC to the github downloads. Unfortunately the firewall here breaks the upload widget so I'll have to do it at home.

[barn]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:17:19PM -0700, rlane wrote:

Originally I installed a 64 bit VMRC if possible, but for some reason that was less reliable than always installing 32 bit. I'll upload a 64-bit VMRC to the github downloads. Unfortunately the firewall here breaks the upload widget so I'll have to do it at home.

On my: Linux natty 2.6.38-8-server #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:49:04 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

the 32-bit versions don't run for me. I blame the ELFs, which is why I went looking for it.

Maybe I need to install some libraries to get 32bit stuff happy on top of libxi6.

Thanks!

ben

[rlane]

Excerpts from barn's message of 2011-05-20 17:19:33 -0400:

Maybe I need to install some libraries to get 32bit stuff happy on top of libxi6.

What does "ldd /tmp/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86-3.0.0-309851/plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc" say? Maybe look for libraries ldd says are not found and aren't shipped with VMRC.

[barn]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:24:17PM -0700, rlane wrote:

What does "ldd /tmp/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86-3.0.0-309851/plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc" say? Maybe look for libraries ldd says are not found and aren't shipped with VMRC.

[ben@natty:/tmp]% ls -la plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc 1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 ben ben 2113428 2010-10-11 20:01 plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc [ben@natty:/tmp]% file plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped [ben@natty:/tmp]% ldd -v plugins/vmware-vmrc
not a dynamic executable

ben

[rlane]

[ben@natty:/tmp]% ldd -v plugins/vmware-vmrc

This should be plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc.

[barn]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:33:57PM -0700, rlane wrote:

This should be plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc.

Sorry, i'm multitasking badly here. It makes no odds:

[ben@natty:/tmp]% file plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped [ben@natty:/tmp]% ldd plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc not a dynamic executable

ben

[rlane]

Excerpts from barn's message of 2011-05-20 17:35:29 -0400:

[ben@natty:/tmp]% ldd plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc not a dynamic executable

Weird. Here's what I get:

rlane-desktop ~ % file /tmp/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86-3.0.0-309851/plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc /tmp/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86-3.0.0-309851/plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped rlane-desktop ~ % sha1sum /tmp/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86-3.0.0-309851/plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc 38ef89f64c16e000d876f49210af9bbd0013f773 /tmp/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86-3.0.0-309851/plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc rlane-desktop ~ % ldd /tmp/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86-3.0.0-309851/plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf771b000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf75da000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXext.so.6 (0xf75cc000) libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXi.so.6 (0xf75bf000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf74d1000) libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXinerama.so.1 (0xf74cd000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf74ca000) libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXcursor.so.1 (0xf74c1000) libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libXrandr.so.2 (0xf74ba000) libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf74b5000) libm.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf748a000) libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf746f000) librt.so.1 => /usr/lib32/librt.so.1 (0xf7466000) libexpat.so.0 => not found libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xf7438000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libfreetype.so.6 (0xf73b3000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXrender.so.1 (0xf73aa000) libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libXft.so.2 (0xf7398000) libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0xf726c000) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xf717e000) libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xf717a000) libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xf712b000) libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xf7126000) libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xf710b000) libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xf70ca000) libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xf70a3000) libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0xf709b000) libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0xf7090000) libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xf6fe2000) libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xf6fc0000) libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xf6b66000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => not found libgiomm-2.4.so.1 => not found libglibmm-2.4.so.1 => not found libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so.1 => not found libatkmm-1.6.so.1 => not found libpangomm-1.4.so.1 => not found libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 => not found libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 => not found libart_lgpl_2.so.2 => not found libxml2.so.2 => not found librsvg-2.so.2 => not found libsexymm.so.2 => not found libsexy.so.2 => not found libview.so.2 => not found libarchive.so.2 => not found libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf6b4d000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf6b48000) libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib32/libXfixes.so.3 (0xf6b43000) libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xf6b38000) libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2 (0xf6a98000) libcairomm-1.0.so.1 => not found libpng12.so.0 => not found libvmwarebase.so.0 => not found libvmwareui.so.0 => not found libgvmomi.so.0 => not found libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf6a7b000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf6916000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf771c000) libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libxcb.so.1 (0xf68fe000) libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libexpat.so.1 (0xf68d5000) libpcre.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpcre.so.0 (0xf6898000) libresolv.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libresolv.so.2 (0xf6880000) libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXcomposite.so.1 (0xf687d000) libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXdamage.so.1 (0xf687a000) libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpixman-1.so.0 (0xf680e000) libpng14.so.14 => /usr/lib32/libpng14.so.14 (0xf67e7000)

[barn]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:39:30PM -0700, rlane wrote:

Weird. Here's what I get:

rlane-desktop ~ % sha1sum /tmp/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86-3.0.0-309851/plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc 38ef89f64c16e000d876f49210af9bbd0013f773 /tmp/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86-3.0.0-309851/plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc

[ben@natty:/tmp]% sha1sum plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc 38ef89f64c16e000d876f49210af9bbd0013f773 plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc

Same file...

This is Ubuntu 11.04, maybe they do something dumb with their libraries.

So, if you:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

then it works, well, ldds:

[ben@natty:/tmp]% ldd plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf77c9000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf7699000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXext.so.6 (0xf768a000) libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXi.so.6 (0xf767b000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf7590000) libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXinerama.so.1 (0xf758c000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf7588000) libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXcursor.so.1 (0xf757d000) libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libXrandr.so.2 (0xf7575000) libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7571000) libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf754b000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7532000) librt.so.1 => /lib32/librt.so.1 (0xf7528000) libexpat.so.0 => not found libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xf74f9000)

and so on...

ben