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Date:      Wed, 14 May 2003 13:57:28 +0200
From:      dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Vmware Misc questions
Message-ID:  <20030514115728.GA30503@lothlorien.nagual.st>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0305131120300.24893-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305121457240.23686-100000@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0305131120300.24893-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>

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On 13 May Jan Grant wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2003, Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote:
>> vmware.com just looks like a comercial site, very far from opensource
>> philosophy. however, vmware is such a big usefull system.

That's because vmware IS a commercial product ;)
 
> Useful enough to pay cash for? If so, you need to buy a license.
> Otherwise, you probably want to explore alternatives such as Wine or
> Plex86.

Apart from that. OP probably runs vmware-2.x (fbsd-4.8 does not support
vmware's 3.x version). Licenses for v2.x are NOT supported/given anymore
on vmware's site.

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++ Running FreeBSD 4.8 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody)



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