http://thern.org If you’re running VMWare Server 2.0.x on CentOS 5.4, you’ll have noticed that you (most likely) suffer random reboots and other instabilities on the guest operating systems – this is due to a glibc error in vmware’s libraries, and has yet to be fixed by vmware (thanks a lot).  The real issue is CentOS/Redhat has updated glibc, and vmware just hasn’t kept up with it. Some more details on vmware’s forums: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/230842?tstart=0 The steps to fix this are as follows: Use the following if you’ve already upgraded to 5.4, and need to downgrade to 5.3 glibc libraries for vmware to work… # code cd /etc/yum.repos.d # copy current .repo to .repo we’ll tailor for CentOS 5.3 cp CentOS-Base.repo CentOS53-Base.repo # replace $releasever with 5.3 sed -i ‘s/$releasever/5.3/g’ CentOS53-Base.repo Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:28:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://thern.org/linux-and-freebsd/vmware-2-0-x-and-centos-5-4-glibc-crashes-and-instabilities-a-workaround-solution/ http://thern.org/linux-and-freebsd/vmware-2-0-x-and-centos-5-4-glibc-crashes-and-instabilities-a-workaround-solution/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:38:23 +0000 Eric Thern http://thern.org/?p=191 If you’re running VMWare Server 2.0.x on CentOS 5.4, you’ll have noticed that you (most likely) suffer random reboots and other instabilities on the guest operating systems – this is due to a glibc error in vmware’s libraries, and has yet to be fixed by vmware (thanks a lot).  The real issue is CentOS/Redhat has [...]]]> http://thern.org/linux-and-freebsd/vmware-2-0-x-and-centos-5-4-glibc-crashes-and-instabilities-a-workaround-solution/feed/ 1