vmware library problem

Robin Becker robin at reportlab.com
Sat Aug 5 12:11:56 UTC 2006


I have built and installed vmware3 from a recent(3/Aug) cvsup'd ports 
tree and everything seems to go fine. On reboot I see these messages 
which seem to relate to vmware

Aug  5 12:44:47 host kernel: vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=200
Aug  5 12:44:47 host kernel: vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized
Aug  5 12:44:47 host kernel: vmnet1: Ethernet address: 00:bd:5b:5f:00:01
Aug  5 12:44:47 host kernel: vmnet1: promiscuous mode enabled

however, when I try running vmware I get a missing library message


# vmware
Setting TMPDIR=/var/tmp.
vmware-mks: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot 
open shared object file: No such file or directory
vmware-ui: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot 
open shared object file: No such file or directory

find indicates that the libraries are indeed present.


# find / -name libX11.so\*
./usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
./usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2
./usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
./usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so
./Programs/Putty0.58/lib/libX11.so.6


Anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong? What exactly should I be 
doing to get an XP machine image to run?
-- 
Robin Becker


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