From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Jan 13 15:40:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88AD537B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:40:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3170C43EB2 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:40:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <2003011323404605100pni7te>; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:40:46 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA73918; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:40:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:40:44 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Mark Santcroos Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware and turbotax In-Reply-To: <20030113222653.GM628@laptop.6bone.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Mark Santcroos wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:04:08PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Yeah mine ran the last few years as well, > > just not the new one.. > > > > stops immediatly with some error (I forget.. something descriptive like: > > I don't know the program, but do you need a license or an activator for > it? (My question is: is it copy protection or something else?) > It could check for some things; cpuid, mac address, that sort of stuff. yes it has an activator and I thinkit is doing something like that. However it would be interesting what cpuid-type instruction vmware doesn't do, considering that win98 works and IT has similar activation. > > What was that windows debugger called? WinIce or something like that? > You could give it a try to run it in there to find out what it is doing. possibly but at present I have it running on the raw hardware and I'll just buy the competition next year. > > Mark > > -- > Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre > http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message