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cosimus
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Registration of VMWare Player

Hi,

I just have installed VMWare Player 2 (64bit) on Ubuntu 7.10 (AMD64). Everytime I start a VM I have to accept some license agreements. How can I register for the VMWare Player in order to avoid this? I saw that only a serial number for ACE (which I don't want to buy) can be entered. on www.vmware.com I found no possibility to register for the VMWare Player (and getting a serial number).

Can anyboday help me?

Thanks,

cosimus

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PJN
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Hi,

I'm not familiar with VMware on Linux but on Windows an entry gets put into the VMware preferences.ini file (in Docs & Settings\<user>\Application Data\VMware). I guess something similar happens on Linux. Have a look for such a file - probably in your user area somewhere.

The lines you want in there are:

pref.eula.0.appName = "VMware Player"

pref.eula.0.buildNumber = "45731"

and possibly

webUpdate.checkLast = "1190896033"

webUpdate.lastCheck.status = "done_updates"

where 45731 is the relevant build number for your version of Player.

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salamonv
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In Linux, the preferences file is in ~/.vmware/preferences (at least for me, on Ubuntu 8.10 guest, vmplayer 2.5.1)

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