It is free however, you still need a license number. Go to their site and get one.
On Monday November 13 2006 23:00, Walter Dnes wrote: > I had almost no problems doing a stage 1 Gentoo install, so I can > RTFM, providing that TFM is half-decently written. vmware's manual is > not very helpful. > snip > > Looking at the console, I get the impression that I'm supposed to > connect to a running vmware host. Acting on a wild hunch, I dug through > "/etc/init.d/" and noticed "vmware". So I tried the obvious... > "/etc/init.d/vmware start". I got a couple of messages about needing to > emerge vmware-modules, and running the config utility. I did both. The > config utility asks for a 20-digit-serial-number. Huh, I though this > was free? When I cancel, it says that I can't power on a VM until I > enter a licence number, but the server does appear to start. > > When I start vmware-server-console in an xterm, I get the following > message... > -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
