[Info-vax] VLF Notes: VMware ESXi for VSI/VMS hobbyists

[Subcommandante XDelta]

On Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:34:26 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta
<vlf at star.enet.dec.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:16:09 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta
><vlf at star.enet.dec.com> wrote:
>
>>Dear comp.os.vms collegiates,
>>
>>The purpose of this VLF (VMS Liberation Front) note is to provide a
>>resource - VMware ESXi - for VSI/VMS hobbyists who want to get closer
>>to the bare metal than what VirtualBox can provide.
>>
>>VMware.ESXi.v8.0.2-BTCRiSO
>>
>>It can be downloaded from the Usenet Binaries Newgroups:
>>
>>https://www.nzbking.com/?q=VMware.ESXi.v8.0.2-BTCRiSO
>>
>>And unpacked with your favourite archiving utility.
>>
>>It's straight from Scene Source, pure as the driven snow, clean as a
>>whistle, and you can bet your nuclear reactor on it.
>>
>>It is kindly provided by our esteemed colleagues elsewhere in the
>>general RCE (Reverse Code Engineering) Scene.
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>
>Addenda, errata:
>
>The late, great, lamented, Utah Phillips, once said: "No matter how
>new age you get, old age will kick your ass."
>
>Yeah, verily, forsooth: I had some memory ECC parity errors, for which
>this is the correction:
>
>I forgot to add these resources for VSI/VMS Hobbyists:
>
>VMware.Products.Multi.Keygen.DC.20240208.WinALL.MacOS.Linux-BTCRiSO
>ipfs://Qmdgguu8UmHc82n5rDqUYg4WKaSePbLETFjNc1tULdRsXS
>
>VMware.Products.UKG.1.0.21.1014-2022.11.18.Multi-Keygen-iND
>ipfs://QmdK6zEHyNB2wqJq85dUjZ8s4CuiGHyCvB4PsYvXuapXK1
>
>They can be retrieved from alt.binaries.warez:
>
>https://binsearch.info/search?poster=broadcom.liberation.front@vmware.rce
>
>Or the can be retrieved from the IPFS:
>
>https://github.com/ipfs/ipget
>
>https://ipfs.io/
>
>However, the IPFS CIDs have not propagated through the network just
>yet, but can be downloaded, by appending the target CID, to one of
>these URLs:
>
>https://ipfs.io/ipfs/
>
>https://dweb.link/ipfs/
>
>https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/

Addenda:

IPFS CID status check:

https://check.ipfs.network/

https://ipfs-check.on.fleek.co/

IPFS CID gateway propagation check:

https://ipfsgatewaychecker.pages.dev/

IPFS CID inspector:

https://cid.ipfs.tech/

IPFS gateway status checker:

https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/

The ipget command for the easiest download is:

ipget --progress vlf$release$cid -o vlf$release$name.rar

If you encounter problems with ipget, then do a IPFS CID gateway
propagation check, and for any of the gateways that return a positive
result for the CID, to download the file, then enter that URL into a
browser window:

https://positive-gateway.tld/ipfs/vlfSrelease$cid

Substituting the relevant address components, to download the target
file.