[Vm-dev] AMD64 VM on FreeBSD?

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Lawson English wrote:

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> I am running freeBSD 8.2  amd64. It will NOT run the ix86 VM. The error is:
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> ELF interpreter /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found
> Abort

Seems like you didn't install 32-bit libraries.


Levente

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> Freebsd experts say that this error is because the VM is a i386 32 bit 
> version, and that will not run on a amd64 freebsd
> 1:19 AM
> So I am still looking for any VM compiled for FreeBSD 8.2 for amd64
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> Thanks.
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> Lawson
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> On 6/6/11 12:57 AM, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
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>> On Sun, 5 Jun 2011, Lawson English wrote:
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>>> Hi, I have an AMD64 box running FreeBSD 8.2.  I read the discussion 
>>> between David Lewis and Randal Schwartz on the vm-dev list about getting 
>>> the Squeak VM runnong on AMD64 but I don't know FreeBSD well enough to 
>>> compile  it myself. Does anyone have a working VM (any old version will 
>>> do)? We have just brought up a a FreeBSD server and find that we can't run 
>>> any squeak VM on it, period.
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>> Every x64 CPU can run x86 programs, so you _can_ use the existing VMs. I 
>> guess you're running a 64-bit OS, so you'll have to install 32-bit 
>> libraries to use 32-bit VMs.
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>> Levente
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>>> 
>>> I DO know how to use the ports collection, but the only versions available 
>>> are ix86 and we need AMD64.
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>>> 
>>> Thanks.
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>>> 
>>> Lawson
>>> 
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