"Activating VMs is not allowed." in Manual Activation

Could you please explain what it means when I try to do a manual activation for a client and I receive the error message: "Activating VMs is not allowed."

What exactly does this indicate that the client is trying to do? Are they definitely trying to activate the product on a VM?

First, make sure you're using the latest TurboActivate (get it here). We recently fixed a false-positive bug where certain old and/or poorly designed CPUs reported that they were a VM even if they weren't. We've fixed this.

If the customer is running a version of your app that uses the latest TurboActivate, then yes, that means the user is trying to run on a virtual machine and you've chosen to disallow activations on virtual machines.