freeBSD7 in a vm (vmware fusion) - Shared object "lib.so.6" not found

[dex]

On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:18 PM, kevin kempter wrote:
> Hi All;
>  This seems to be more of a lib not found than a vm issue:
> I've done this:
> 1) installed freeBSD 7 in vmware fusion (v 1.1.3)
> 2) selected to install vmware tools from the menu
> 3) logged into the console as root
> 4) mounted the vmware virtual cd
> 5) copied the vmware tools tar.gz file to /tmp
> 6) expanded the vmware tools tar.gz file in /tmp
> 7) cd to the new vmware-toold-distrib dir and ran ./vmware-install.pl
>  Then I get this:
> Before running VMware Tools for the first time you need to  
> configure it by invoking the following command: "/usr/local/bin/ 
> vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want this program to invoke the  
> command for you now? [yes]
>
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "lib.so.6" not found,  
> required by "vmware-checkvm"
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "lib.so.6" not found,  
> required by "vmware-checkvm"
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "lib.so.6" not found,  
> required by "vmware-checkvm"
> This configuration program is to be executed in a virtual machine.
> Execution aborted.
>
> I also tried starting KDE and in a Konsole terminal window (as  
> root) running /usr/local/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl  and I get the  
> same results

Try using the port vmware-guestd.  It worked good for me.