diff --git a/vmware/files/libc.so.6 b/vmware/files/libc.so.6
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..47f1540
Binary files /dev/null and b/vmware/files/libc.so.6 differ
diff --git a/vmware/files/vmware-hostd.patch b/vmware/files/vmware-hostd.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b159306
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vmware/files/vmware-hostd.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+--- vmware-hostd.orig	2010-10-14 20:18:17.000000000 +0300
++++ vmware-hostd	2010-10-14 20:18:31.000000000 +0300
+@@ -370,4 +370,6 @@
+    export MALLOC_CHECK_=2
+ fi
+ 
++export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
++
+ eval exec "$DEBUG_CMD" "$binary" "$@"
diff --git a/vmware/manifests/server.pp b/vmware/manifests/server.pp
index 26aabe3..5f5fa1f 100644
--- a/vmware/manifests/server.pp
+++ b/vmware/manifests/server.pp
@@ -15,6 +15,38 @@ class vmware::server {
 		       Exec["vmware-config.pl"], ],
     }
 
+    if $operatingsystem == "CentOS" {
+        file { "/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6":
+            ensure  => directory,
+            mode    => 0755,
+            owner   => root,
+            group   => root,
+            require => Package["VMware-server"],
+        }
+        file { "/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6/libc.so.6":
+            ensure  => present,
+            source  => "puppet:///vmware/libc.so.6",
+            mode    => 0755,
+            owner   => root,
+            group   => root,
+            require => File["/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6"],
+            before  => Service["vmware"],
+        }
+        file { "/usr/local/src/vmware-hostd.patch":
+            ensure  => present,
+            source  => "puppet:///vmware/vmware-hostd.patch",
+            mode    => 0644,
+            owner   => root,
+            group   => root,
+            require => Package["VMware-server"],
+        }
+        util::patch { "/usr/sbin":
+            source  => "/usr/local/src/vmware-hostd.patch",
+            require => File["/usr/local/src/vmware-hostd.patch"],
+            before  => Service["vmware"],
+        }
+    }
+
     # seems that vmware init script fails if pid files are missing for vmnet
     # processes, so kill them by force first
     exec { "vmware-config.pl":