I'm trying to stick VMware 1.0.2 on an old Win2k box for historical and semi-practical purposes, however it won't run without a license which is supposed to be stored in the registry. I tracked down where it's supposed to be stored (yeah, it's pretty obvious) but I'm not sure what kind of data was actually in the license keys so I can properly make my own.
Anyone here work with 1.x/2.x in the early 2000s, or have an old box laying around with a working install on it that could give me some insight? Or whether or not there's anything else I can do short of disassembling the executable and flailing around like a retard until I find something of interest, if I do at all?
Thanks for reading my blog.
>>54628964
you can probably find an old-timey serial for this old-timey software on an old-timey warez/codes site
(anyone remember astalavista?)
>>54629011
I've thought of FTP surfing for a key but I'm not sure what they named them.
Good idea with old warez sites though, I kind of discounted it since Google will give you everything else VMware ever shipped with a 1.x or 2.x version number no matter how much you refine your search, never really had to search for something this hard before.
>>54629011
>>54629051
Took your suggestion and dug up an ancient keygen for 1.0.1, might have to mess with it a little to get it to generate licenses valid with a current date though.
It works now if I set my date back, gives me an unrelated error however, I'll figure it out eventually.
Thanks though, maybe now I can test drive Red Hat 6 without wiping the OEM 2K image off of this system.
Why not use Vbox or KVM?
Now I just feel retarded, I've spent hours combing FTPs for old versions of pre-4.x VMware and Winworld has already archived everything, there's even some forum threads on exactly the shit I'm blogging about.
>>54629519
If I was just doing it for pure utility I wouldn't be using an ancient 2k system nor such an old version of VMware that's licensed this way rather than 3.x and above that will just take a regular serial number when started.
Besides, VB is too new, released in '07, and KVM requires GNU/Linux which has such god awful support for this hardware that I would get more use out of it as a flashy doorstop.
