WS 12.5 hostd fails to run on RHEL 6.8

[alexsch]

I upgraded to WS 12.5 this morning and immediately found that hostd fails:

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd: /lib64/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.3.3' not found (required by /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmacore.so/libvmacore.so)

I currently have zlib-1.2.3-29.el6.x86_64 installed, so does this mean that Workstation 12.5 does not support RHEL6?

[alexsch]

FWIW I manually installed zlib 1.2.8 and hostd now runs fine, but this makes me wonder what other dependencies on newer libraries lurk around.  Also there never was a 1.2.3.3 release of ZLIb which makes me wonder if VMWare has mixed versions with patchlevels on their hosts, or what distro WS is built on?

[HuanguoZhong]

Thanks for your detail info, that helps us a lot.

It's a defect, we've opened a bug to track it. Workstation has the module Zlib1.2.8, it should not use the module from host OS.