VMWare3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4

[Guido van Rooij]

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