{"id":764,"date":"2013-06-29T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T23:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2013-06-29T00:01:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T23:01:34","slug":"vmware-quirks-cli-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"VMware Quirks..  CLI to the Rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had occasion to (re) install VMware Workstation recently, and found that &#8211; for some reason &#8211; the &#8216;<em>Enter License Key<\/em>&#8216; button did nothing..<\/p>\n<p>So, after the usual search, I was able to do this though a console session:<br \/>\n<strong># <span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">\/usr\/lib\/vmware\/bin\/vmware-vmx &#8211;new-sn &lt;license key&gt;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 June 28, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had occasion to (re) install VMware Workstation recently, and found that &#8211; for some reason &#8211; the &#8216;Enter License Key&#8216; button did nothing.. So, after the usual search, I was able to do this though a console session: # \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/bin\/vmware-vmx &#8211;new-sn &lt;license key&gt; Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 June 28, 2013. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=764\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,25],"tags":[539,540,538,1175,537],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-hacks","category-vmware","tag-button-fails","tag-cli","tag-enter-license-key","tag-success","tag-vmware-workstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}