Version 8.04 and VMware 1.0.6

[Lawrence Houston]

Tom N8TL

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Tom wrote:

> I installed VMware version 1.0.6 on mentioned platform and received the
> following error:
>
> /usr/lib/VMware/bin/vmware:  /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_S.SO.1/libgcc_S.SO.1:Version 'GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.SO.2), also, same message for version 'GCC_4.2.0'
>
> Anyone have a way around this problem??? Any help appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom N8TL

Although I found two references concerning this version issue within the 
libgcc Library and I did get VMware Server 1.0.6 running (sort of) under 
Ubuntu 8.04, I continued to have too many problems and concluded that the 
VMware 1.0.x Server was too old to support this latest release from 
Ubuntu???  NOTE VMware is working on a 2.x Beta of their Server...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=779934

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/05/30/install-vmware-server-106-on-ubuntu-804-hardy/

Problems which persisted included having to switch to the Proprietary ATI 
Video Drive to get the Full Screen MDOE to work and a Strange CPU Hang 
within the Guest (Windows 2000 I believe it was)...  NOTE: VMware 
Workstation 2.0.4 runs much better under Ubuntu 8.04, although still it is 
still on "Edge" of Stability!!!

Lawrence Houston  -- (ubuntu at greenfield.dyndns.org)