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I signed up for the VMware public beta, and it gave me a serial for that version, and it claims it's invalid. Any idea why? I'm running on my iHack currently. Specs in sig, except I'm on 10.4.9 with 8.9.1.

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I've the same issue and as me a lotofpeople... it looks like a bug of this Beta2. I also posted a ticket to VMWare support team but they have not replied yet.

 

 

P.s: I've the MBP in signature running under OSX 10.4.9.

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or maybe the serial is already used by someone else......

Did you try to install it? There are none many serials... for beta testing, VMWare released 1 universal serial number.

 

Dax... we are speaking about this issue here too :thumbsup_anim:

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hmmm mbr? how? it's 3 days i'm trying to mount my partition

There is a tool in the /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/ that creates the vmk file (a text file containing the geometry of the disk and size of the partition)

 

Right now I'm in the Powerbook, also out of town, when I get back I see the name of the tool and post it.

 

EDIT:

 

the name of the app is vmware-rawdiskCreator

 

in Terminal you type:

vmware-rawdiskCreator create diskdev part-number filename adaptertype

 

in my case since my XP disk is a third one I typed:

vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/disks2 1 ~/vmware/rawdisk ide

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no problems on my hack with vmware beta 3, it's a lot faster too :(

lord, I hate you :rolleyes:

 

So, as any Italian rock-like boy :superman:, I installed it once again, OSX 10.4.9 clean installation, Italian layout for any setting and... "invalid serial" has popped out again. I opened a thread into the Official Beta forum but it seems a well-know bug never fixed and maybe a day to-fix. Really disappointed about that. Anyway what's about this Beta3? Support is still locked at DX 8.1?

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I fixed the problem for me; I would also get kernel panic during install.

 

How I fixed it was, use this ;

 

http://kaspers.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2...rnel-panic.html

 

during install, then put the file there permanently;

 

fix all the permissions in the kexts directory of VMWare (/Library/App services/VMware/kexts)

sudo -s

chown -R root:wheel *.*

chmod 755 *.*

 

then run the boot.sh script in there, and enter serial through the liscence menu..

 

Sorry it is vague, recalling from memory.

 

Hope it helps.

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There is a tool in the /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/ that creates the vmk file (a text file containing the geometry of the disk and size of the partition)

 

Right now I'm in the Powerbook, also out of town, when I get back I see the name of the tool and post it.

 

EDIT:

 

the name of the app is vmware-rawdiskCreator

 

in Terminal you type:

vmware-rawdiskCreator create diskdev part-number filename adaptertype

 

in my case since my XP disk is a third one I typed:

vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/disks2 1 ~/vmware/rawdisk ide

 

This is a great piece of advice! I was having numerous problems running XP in a virtual machine with a virtual hard disk. While doing CPU and HDD intensive tasks the VM would eat all of my RAM (4GB) and when I tried to do anything in Leopard it would GSOD. After making a physical partition and linking it like this my VMs work like a charm! Lovely!

 

-sdelano

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Serial # not accepted?

 

If serial fails to accept do the following:

 

Right click: VMWARE.APP -> SHOW CONTENTS

 

Browse to the location of the LICENSE directory.

 

Find the license file within the directory.

 

Edit it with: sudo nano

And add this line under License:

 

Serial = "INSE-RTSE-RIAL-HERE"

 

Press control+O to open save dialog.

 

Press enter to save.

 

Press control+X to close nano.

 

Notice Application is now working and registered.

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