Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:20:28 +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: <20060127202028.GA13714@gvr.gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <200601271802.KAA83158@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <20060127080605.GA5359@gvr.gvr.org> <200601271802.KAA83158@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:02:34AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> [cc-ed back onto the emulation list, others may want this...]
>
> You vmware binary has been patched.. 4 bytes are altered.
>
> Looking at the vmware-any-any-update96 update.c file I have
> matched this to -PART- of the trypatch2242 code (that is
> the patch when any-any finds a 3.2.1-2242 binary):
>
> static int trypatch2242(struct file* fd, const char* name) {
> static const char newcodeNICE[] =
> "\xE8\xC7\xFF\xFE\xFF\x33\xDB\x83\xC4\x04";
> static const char oldcodeNICE[] =
> "\xE8\xC7\xFF\xFE\xFF\x89\xC3\x83\xC4\x04";
> static const char newcodeNICE2[] =
> "\xE8\x5D\xFF\xFE\xFF\x33\xDB\x83\xC4\x04";
> static const char oldcodeNICE2[] =
> "\xE8\x5D\xFF\xFE\xFF\x89\xC3\x83\xC4\x04";
>
> Using your vmware binary on my FreeBSD 5.4p8 w/linux_base-7.3
> has correctd the shutdown panics from VMWare itself and I can
> again smash the reset button and not have to restart VMWare!
> THANK YOU!
Cool ;-)
-Guido
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