Virtual Disk API Programming Guide - Documentation - VMware

Virtual Disk Programming Guide
On install, VDDK creates the directory /usr/lib/vimware-vix-disklib, populated with 32‐bit and 64‐bit
executables and libraries placed into subdirectories bin32, bin64, lib32, and lib64. On determining the OS
type, VDDK copies the vixDiskLib and vixMntapi libraries into /usr/lib. It does not copy libssl.so.0.9.8
or libcrypto.so.0.9.8 into /usr/lib.
On execution, the root user normally has no LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and /usr/lib is ahead of /opt/vmware/lib
in the path. Running the ldd command can help diagnose where a program is getting libvixDiskLib.so and
other libraries. The /opt/vmware/lib directory is neither created nor updated by the VDDK install script.
If you see the error “Failed to load library libcrypto.so.0.9.8” there are several solutions:
Set or reset the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment so it contains one of the directories above, either /lib32
or /lib64, before it contains /usr/lib.
Change the symbolic link in /opt/vmware/lib (or elsewhere) so it points to one of the directories above,
either /lib32 or /lib64 depending.
Copy the libssl and libcrypto libraries from /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib32 (or /lib64)
into /usr/lib.
Open Source Components
VDDK contains the following open source components, with license types indicated:
Boost (BSD style license)
Curl (MIT/X derivative license)
Expat (BSD style license)
FreeBSD (BSD license)
ICU, International Components for Unicode (BSD style license)
LibXML2 (MIT style license)
OpenLDAP (OpenLDAP v 2.8 license)
OpenSSL (OpenSSL license)
Zlib (BSD license)
These open source components have the GNU library general public license:
GetText (LGPL2.0)
Glib (LGPL 2.0)
LibFuse (LGPL2.0)
LibIconv (LGPL2.0)
96 VMware, Inc.