VMWare3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4

[Guido van Rooij]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:25:18AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> Please make me happy and show me the output of:
> 
> which vmware
> file /usr/local/bin/vmware
> file /usr/X11R6/bin/vmware
> ls /usr/X11R6/lib/vmware/bin

[/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin] guido at beck> which vmware
/usr/local/bin/vmware
[/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin] guido at beck> file /usr/local/bin/vmware
/usr/local/bin/vmware: Bourne shell script text executable

I don't have anything vmware related in /usr/X11R6

> > > vmware file on my 4.9 system is:
> > 
> > My linux_base was installed on Spe 22, 2005, and my vmware on Nov 9, 2005.
> 
> Very odd then that the date on your vmware binaries is April 5, 2005,
> which is actually win linux_base was 7.1.  I think you got bit by the
> very nasty I spoke of in moving vmware from /usr/local to /usr/X11R6
> during the linux_base-8.8 update process.

Perhaps I installed vmware before installing linux_base8? The vmware directory
in the pkg db might have been updated by portupgrade.

> > 
> > It seems I didn;t patch my binary:
> > [/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin] guido at 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.
> 
> Hummm.. this points out another ``nit'' seems we are not preserving
> any dates of the original vmware distiribution during the install,
> as I am sure we dont touch vmware-ping or vmware-smbd.
> 
> The files from the tarball of 2242 are:
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201     4624 Jul 23  2003 vmnet-bridge
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201   105012 Jul 23  2003 vmnet-dhcpd
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201    77560 Jul 23  2003 vmnet-natd
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201     4388 Jul 23  2003 vmnet-netifup
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201     5988 Jul 23  2003 vmnet-sniffer
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201  2157216 Jul 23  2003 vmware
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201   136523 Jul 23  2003 vmware-config.pl
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201   327108 Jul 23  2003 vmware-nmbd
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201     8784 Jul 23  2003 vmware-ping
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201   703588 Jul 23  2003 vmware-smbd
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201      629 Jul 23  2003 vmware-smbpasswd
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201   389772 Jul 23  2003 vmware-smbpasswd.bin
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201    53153 Jul 23  2003 vmware-uninstall.pl
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 201  201  1220890 Jul 23  2003 vmware-wizard

It's weird that the md5 checksums of our binaries are not the same...

-Guido