Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:51:38 +0100 From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: orlando@break.net, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 Message-ID: <20060126205138.GC92946@gvr.gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <200601262021.MAA81218@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <20060126194220.GA92112@gvr.gvr.org> <200601262021.MAA81218@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 12:21:03PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:25:18AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > Please make me happy and show me the output of: > > > > > > which vmware > > > file /usr/local/bin/vmware > > > file /usr/X11R6/bin/vmware > > > ls /usr/X11R6/lib/vmware/bin > > > > [/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin] guido@beck> which vmware > > /usr/local/bin/vmware > > [/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin] guido@beck> file /usr/local/bin/vmware > > /usr/local/bin/vmware: Bourne shell script text executable > > > > I don't have anything vmware related in /usr/X11R6 > > Then your not running a -currentish ports tree... or you have > overriden PREFIX on vmware. I installed the port probably before the move from local to X11R6. > > > Very odd then that the date on your vmware binaries is April 5, 2005, > > > which is actually win linux_base was 7.1. I think you got bit by the > > > very nasty I spoke of in moving vmware from /usr/local to /usr/X11R6 > > > during the linux_base-8.8 update process. > > > > Perhaps I installed vmware before installing linux_base8? The vmware directory > > in the pkg db might have been updated by portupgrade. > > Ummm.. shoould not of been possible with normal methods, you would > have to do overrides. Again, is what you have is an ``evolved'' system > attempting to take 5.4 out of th box and install the ports collection, > cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3; make install > and you well start to twine into the can of worms I have been through, > starting with an almost immediate failure as there is no perl... > > > > > > It seems I didn;t patch my binary: > > Your MD5 mis matches, your binary IS patched. > > > It's weird that the md5 checksums of our binaries are not the same... > > Yea, and I bet if you go get the one from VMware-workstation-3.2.1-2242.tar.gz > you well find that a cmp -x shows a few bytes edited.. which was done by > the any-any patch. Ah okay. Have you tried that patch btw? (from a quick googling around it seems that patch is for vmware2??) -Guido
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