Author: John Merlino
Date: 08:56:41 11/05/01
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On November 04, 2001 at 00:05:14, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: >OK, being a stubborn cuss, I just tried to install Chessmaster 8000 in a Win98 >box running inside VMWARE. It refused to install with the message: > - A Debugger has been detected > unload the debugger and try again. > >This is the first time I've seen *any* program do this in VMWARE. I got onto the >VMWARE news group and others have seen the same thing. > >What is causing this? Is it an attempt to prevent breaking copy protection? >Is there any way to use this program with VMware? > >thanks >Betsy You got me in a good mood, and hopefully I won't get reprimanded for saying this: This is our stupid copy-protection scheme that is built into the installer doesn't really seem to accomplish anything useful. You cannot run the installation program with VMWARE (and several developer-type programs, such as MSVC) running. If you can, just disable VMWARE for the installation. After that, you can run the program just fine even with VMWARE running. jm
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