you know, I finally got vmware to work when I logged in as a normal user, I
was logged in as root before. And it is all fine and dandy when I am logged
in as me, except, I can't have it use a partition, I can only choose a
virtual disk. This is not my desired effect at all, I want to boot into my
exisiting windoze from inside of linux. ultimately I want to be able to
watch my TV Tuner card, and to use MS Access 2k. When I try to use an
exisitng partition, it says i don't have access to any. I put my name in the
root group, and I made sure that the /dev folder included read and write
access to the root group. I put myself in the disk group as well, as, upon
further investigation, I realized that the hda file has permission group
setup for disk group. Anyway, none of tha works, but I can't get the license
to register when I am logged in as root. Any more idea's? Also, what would
happen if you modify the liscense file to have a later expiration date?
Seems rather easy to extend the free trial if all it takes is to change the
date.
Thanks in Advance,
Joe
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, you managed to utter:
> You might have done this, and I may be misinterpreting your email, but I'll
> send this out anyway:
>
> the license file needs to be place in the .vmware (not the fullstop at the
> start) directory that exists in the home directory of the user that will be
> using vmware.
>
> eg, user jbloggs wants to run vmware, copy the license file to
> /home/jbloggs/.vmware/license.file
>
> this is how I've set up the license on my PC at home, and works just fine
> for vmware2.0.3
>
> hope this helps....
>
> Dave
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/21 3:01 pm >>>
>
> Hello again everyone. I have installed a trial version of VMWare at work
> under Windows 2000 professional, and it works quite nicely. However, I am
> having some difficulty with the trial version of VMWare for LM7.2 The
> version that came on the cd's wouldn't install, said the package was
> corrupt. So, I downloaded it over again. That went ok, and I installed the
> .rpm ok, then ran the vwmare-config.pl file with minimal incident (needed
> to compile a new module for my kernel) and I even setup like I did at work
> to boot into windows under Linux, but, it says I don't have a valid key. I
> have the trial key, and i put the file in the vmware directory, and i tried
> renaming it to just say license, but nothing is working for me. Is quite
> annoying. I even made the vmware folder hidden, which seemed to be what
> the instructions wanted. So, I just don't know what to do at this point.
> Maybe someone can give guidence?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Joe
