Recently i had to install VMWare Server on a CentOS 4.4 x86_64 box for one of our clients. I ran a clean install of CentOS 4.4 from the server CD. The RPM install of VMWare Server went fine but during the vmware-config.pl step i ran into some trouble related to missing libraries.

After some searching on Google i found an excellent post on the weblog of a CentOS developer named Karanbir Singh. To make everything work, you need to poison your 64-bit system with some 32-bit libraries

I had to install the following packages to make things work (some are sucked in by dependancies):

• xorg-x11-libs.i386
• expat.i386 (dep. of xorg-x11-libs)
• fontconfig.i386 (dep. of xorg-x11-libs)
• freetype.i386 (dep. of xorg-x11-libs)
• xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386 (dep. of xorg-x11-libs)
• zlib.i386 (dep. of xorg-x11-libs)
• glibc.i686
• gcc.x86_64

After this vmware-config.pl ran flawlessly and VMWare Server is up and running!