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November 22, 2008

VMware RCLI on amd64/x86_64

Filed under: Virtualization — tmclaugh @ 4:45 pm

I’m running an x86_64 install for Fedora right now on my laptop and want to use the RCLI tools which fail to install on x86_64 (amd64) OSes.

[root@tomcat vmware-rcli-distrib]# ./vmware-install.pl
This version of "VMware VI Remote Command Line Tools" is incompatible with this
operating system.  Please install the "x86_64" version of this program instead.

I found a patch here but it fails to fully apply with the latest version. In addition, when you do get it installed you end up with errors like this:

[tom@tomcat ~]$ esxcfg-vmhbadevs
Can't locate VMware/VIRuntime.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/local/bin/esxcfg-vmhbadevs line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/esxcfg-vmhbadevs line 10.

I’ve updated the patch to fix these problems for anyone interested.

vmware-rcli-distrib-x86_64.diff

2 Comments »

  1. Thanks a lot. It was quite helpful.

    Comment by CTAC — December 25, 2008 @ 2:01 am

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