Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 08:14:43 11/06/01
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On November 05, 2001 at 11:56:41, John Merlino wrote: >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: > You should not be reprimanded. You should be given a raise for being honest, genuinely helpful, and acting in the best interest of the customer! >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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