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Starting VMware Tools in a FreeBSD 4.5 Guest Operating System

In
a FreeBSD 4.5 guest operating system, sometimes VMware Tools does not
start after you install VMware Tools, reboot the guest operating system
or start VMware Tools on the command line in the guest. An error
message appears:

Shared object ‘libc.so.3′ not found.

The
required library was not installed. This does not happen with full
installations of FreeBSD 4.5, but does occur for minimal installations.
To fix the problem of the missing library, take the following steps:

   1. Insert and mount the FreeBSD 4.5 installation CD or access the ISO image file.
   2. Change directories and run the installation script.

      cd /cdrom/compat3x
      ./install.sh