Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

[Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch>]

On Saturday 11 March 2006 16.30, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi Thierry,
>    It's good news that Parallels worked that well for you that
> quickly. Was it pretty straight forward to bring up?
>
>    Any thoughts on whether it would be likely to work in a chroot'ed
> 32-bit environment on my 64-bit Gentoo machine?
>
> Cheers,
> Mark

Hi Mark,

As it won't work on my Gentoo amd64 I made the test on a SuSE (I have not 
converted to Gentoo on the laptop yet because I could not get hibernation to 
work correctly). It was as easy as: install rpm with Yast, run the config 
script, install a virtual machine.

I have no experience with chroot'ed environments (except for the one I used 
while setting up Gentoo), so I can't answer your question.

The ebuild emerges correctly, the problem is when you run the configure script 
that should compile the module - so I'd guess this is a problem relatd to the 
fact that /lib does not point to 32 bit libraries.

As far as a chroot'ed environments supplies the right libraries it should 
work.

Thierry
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