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Date:      Mon, 23 Apr 2001 07:21:53 -0700
From:      Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Cc:        Marc Fonvieille <fonvi@easynet.fr>, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vmware
Message-ID:  <E14rhDt-000540-00@rip.psg.com>
References:  <E14rgp3-0004NL-00@rip.psg.com> <20010423151209.C1779@tao.org.uk>

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>> i am trying to use your vmware installation page,
>>     <http://www.freebsdzine.org/200102/vmware2.php3>;
>> with a vmware workstation cdrom i just received.  i think i am doing
>> something terribly wrong, as both the cdrom and /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2
>> seem to want to install over eachother.  any hints?
>> should i just be using /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2 with the license for
>> the cdrom and forgetting the cdrom install?
> Yes.  Although you can probably copy VMware-2.0.3-799.tar.gz from the
> cdrom to /usr/ports/distfiles before you start to save it from having to
> download.  If you've got an earlier version on the cdrom you'll want to
> fetch it over the net anyway.

ok.  i just used /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2.  i presume it will ask for my
real serial number if i ever get it to run.  but ...

i get the proper responses from 
  ifconfig vmnet1
and
  kldstat

but when i run vmware from a user account, i get

% vmware
Setting TMPDIR=/var/tmp.
VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system administrator
must find and run "vmware-config.pl". For more information, please read the
INSTALL file in VMware Workstation's documentation directory.

i then try 
  /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl
and it whines

# ./vmware-config.pl 
Setup is unable to find the "insmod" program on your machine. Please make sure 
it is installed. Do you want to specify the location of this program by hand? 
[yes] 

so i am confused and stuck again.

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