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VMWare server on a 64bit system.

By Lennard | May 24, 2006

So we have a server with an 64bit CentOS 4.3. On this server VMWare Server (beta) must be installed. Only is VMServer Server 32bit software. To get it installed some of the libraries, the 32bit version instead of the 64bit version must be installed.

Vmware require the 32bit version of the xorg-x11-libs, glib2, pam, compat-db packages. If you want yum to also install the 32bit version of the libraries the following content must be placed in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base-i386.repo

[base-i386]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Base
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/i386/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0

#released updates
[update-i386]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/i386/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1

After creating this this the following command will install the 32bit versions of the libraries:

yum –enablerepo=base-i386 install xorg-x11-libs glib2 pam compat-db

After this VMWare Server (beta) should run without any problemens.

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