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Re: VMWare3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4



On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:54:00AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > 
> > > Do you have any ethernet devices configured?  or cdrom devices?
> > 
> > Yes. I am using a bge0 bridged to the vmnet device. I have a 
> > cdrom configured, but its never present (it's on a dell laptop).
> 
> Do you get a vmware Panic during shutdown?

No.

> 
> > > I think the snag come up when your using these.
> > > The code does kinda work, but you well get panics on shutdown.
> > 
> > I don't get these.
> > I once did patch some vmware binaries, but i think that was for
> > vmware2 (the vmware-any-any-update thing).
> the vmware-any-any-update is a vmware3 thing if I recall correctly.
> 
> > My binary is:
> > MD5 (/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware) = 548b596d4db2604dce99776e9456a663
> 
> Interesting, as it should be in /usr/X11R6/bin/vmware/bin/vmware
> if this was installed after the linux_Base-8 update, and an unpatched
> vmware file on my 4.9 system is:

My linux_base was installed on Spe 22, 2005, and my vmware on Nov 9, 2005.

> 
> MD5 (/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware) = b43d5cf153d5928cce65a9c293fafc39
> and confirmed from an untarred dist files:
> MD5 (/usr/ports/distfiles/vmware-distrib/bin/vmware) = b43d5cf153d5928cce65a9c293fafc39

It seems I didn;t patch my binary:
[/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin] guido@beck> ls -l
total 7406
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      704 Apr  1  2005 df
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     4624 Apr  1  2005 vmnet-bridge
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   105012 Apr  1  2005 vmnet-dhcpd
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    77560 Apr  1  2005 vmnet-natd
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     4388 Apr  1  2005 vmnet-netifup
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     5988 Apr  1  2005 vmnet-sniffer
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2157216 Apr  1  2005 vmware
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   136523 Apr  1  2005 vmware-config.pl
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   543344 Apr  1  2005 vmware-mks
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   327108 Apr  1  2005 vmware-nmbd
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     8784 Apr  1  2005 vmware-ping
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   703588 Apr  1  2005 vmware-smbd
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      629 Apr  1  2005 vmware-smbpasswd
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   389772 Apr  1  2005 vmware-smbpasswd.bin
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1682696 Apr  1  2005 vmware-ui
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    53153 Apr  1  2005 vmware-uninstall.pl
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1220890 Apr  1  2005 vmware-wizard
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2157216 Apr  1  2005 vmware.old

My binary says version 3.2.1 build-2242 in the about window.

-Guido