From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 16:28:39 2003 Return-Path: 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 6542116A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:28:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1D1A43FB1 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:28:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from welchsm@earthlink.net) Received: from ernie.psp.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.78.243]) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1A4qOb-0001pO-00 for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:28:37 -0700 Message-ID: <22902674.1065050917914.JavaMail.root@ernie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:28:37 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: Sean Welch To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Earthlink Zoo Mail 1.0 Subject: re: vmware3 tips and observations X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sean Welch List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 23:28:39 -0000 I was referring to the menu choice for entering a serial number. If you look inside the vmware.ws.3.0 file you will see that there is a line reading: LicenseVersion = "3.0" I'm guessing that there is something in the serial number that indicates what version it is for -- if there is no file with the right version number in it you won't be able to modify it. In other words, you should have any trouble as long as you actually have a serial number for version 3. Hope that helps! Sean -----Original Message----- From: Mike Hoskins Sent: Oct 1, 2003 5:11 PM To: welchsm@earthlink.net Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: re: vmware3 tips and observations > I found the following characteristics of the current port (under > 5.1 RELEASE). thanks for the post... > The lincense key can be entered to produce a license file from > the GUI menu. As installed it will fail but if you copy the > license.ws.3.0 file to ~/.vmware that will be found and you > can type in your key. The GUI will do the hash calculation for > you. my purchasing guy just came back and said "can't get 3.0 license" too. i guess the boxed set will have to do -- way to go vmware, we have receipts for two 4.0 licenses. but whatever, they're not a huge company so i can deal. ;) it'd just be nice if they actually knew some people still need to run 3.0. (or, if they do know, it'd be nice if they didn't just ignore us as paying customers.) in the paragraph above, did you mean the wizard or "Help -> Enter Serial Number" from the main vmware menu? i don't see a place to enter anything license related in the wizard, so i assume you mean the latter. however, if i go to "Help -> Enter..." i just get (no other dialogs), -- Cannot find a license for VMware Workstation. Please register at http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/ to obtain a license. If you already have a license, please verify that it was placed in a file that begins with "license" or "licence" in the subdirectory ".vmware" of your home directory. -- if i take a license and put it in .vmware, it lets me choose "Enter Serial" from the Help menu... however, then no matter what serial I enter it just tells me "could not find a matching license". there's no option to use my key to generate a new license... which is what i'm looking for. i must have missed something. -mrh -- From: "Spam Catcher" To: spam-catcher@adept.org Do NOT send email to the address listed above or you will be added to a blacklist!