From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 07:42:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA88E16A4CE for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 07:42:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from av7-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (av7-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.109]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E4543D46 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 07:42:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from g.svalland@telia.com) Received: by av7-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id E41E237E8E; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:42:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.183]) by av7-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D313437E59 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:42:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from thor.swedehost.com (h129n2fls33o804.telia.com [217.209.211.129]) by smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A4637E42; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:42:32 +0100 (CET) From: Geir Svalland To: Sean Welch , Sean Welch Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:42:36 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1982557.1076080071627.JavaMail.root@thecount.psp.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <1982557.1076080071627.JavaMail.root@thecount.psp.pas.earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402061642.36878.g.svalland@telia.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare licensing file problem. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:42:35 -0000 Hi Sean. Thx a lot for your answer. Helped me a lot. / Geir. On Friday 06 February 2004 16.07, Sean Welch wrote: > Version 2 of VmWare is no longer sold so the evaluation license you > got is most likely for version 4 (which does not run on FreeBSD yet). > The confusion results from the fact that with version 2 you got a > license file but starting with version 3 (which DOES run under > FreeBSD) you are only supplied with a "key" which is to be entered > into a form in the VmWare gui once it has been started (there is a > register menu or some such). > > I'm affraid you are out of luck with vmware2 unless you can manage to > locate a license file somewhere. > > It is still possible to find boxed copies of version 3 online (check > ebay and such) and that version will run on either 4-STABLE or 5.1 > and higher. I'm currently running it under a patched 4.9-RELEASE and > also under 5.2-RELEASE. > > Sean > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >----------------- > > > Hi everybody. > > I have a problem with the vmware licensing file > > after installing the vmware2 port. > > I've received an e-mail with the evaluation key, copied it into > > /home/user/.vmware, named it license2.0 but it don't seem to work. > > The message I get is that there is no valid license for this > > version of VMware workstation. > > After checking at vmware's website and reading troubleshooting > > instructions, it seems like there should have been an atachment > > with a licencefile to the mail I received, but there was none. > > Just a 30 days evolution license-key. > > Anybody have any clues ? > > > > TIA > > Regards > > Geir Svalland