[Vm-dev] UUID new crashes 64bit vm

[David T. Lewis]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 06:39:07AM +0200, Philippe Marschall wrote:
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> 2008/10/6, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 09:05:29PM +0200, Philippe Marschall wrote:
> >>
> >> 2008/10/5, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 04:07:12PM +0200, Philippe Marschall wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> I built a 64bit VM (for 32bit images) from SVN trunk and
> >> >> VMMaker-dtl.102. UUID new causes the VM to segmentation fault. The
> >> >> reason I did this is because I need to have a Unix VM with the cUrl
> >> >> plugin and my system is 64 bit. I need to have the cUrl plugin because
> >> >> I need an https client. If I'm doing it wrong what would be the right
> >> >> way of doing it? Or is there even a recent 64bit Unix VM available
> >> >> that was a cUrl plugin?
> >> >
> >> > Some plugins have not been updated for 64bit platforms. The CurlPlugin
> >> > may be one of them.
> >>
> >> The CurlPlugin runs fine. It's the UUIDPlugin I have trouble with.
> >
> > I just tried building the UUIDPlugin on 64bit AMD and it works fine.
> > I ran it under gdb and stepped through the primitive just to be sure
> > it was running, and there were no problems.
> >
> > Perhaps there is a problem with your libuuid installation? I installed
> > only the 64bit uuid library (usr/lib64/libuuid.so) when I tried this.
> 
> Same here.
> 
> > Perhaps if the 32bit library is also installed, it could cause confusion.
> 
> Indeed there is usr/lib32/libuuid.so as well. How should I proceed?

Actually, I have no experience with this. My guess would be that you
just need a way to tell Linux what the search path is for the linker.
I think that you can probably do this by adding "-L/usr/lib64" to the
Makefile for the plugin and/or the VM. This is probably a Linux FAX,
and Google may know more about it than I do ;-)

I'm really just guessing here, all I can say for sure is that it compiled
and ran on my Linux laptop. FWIW, this is a SuSE Linux 64bit OS.

Dave