Switching from Bootcamp to VMWare Prompts for Activation

Hey WyDay,

We allow activations on virtual machines, because a large portion of our customers use OS X with VMware Fusion and Parallels.

I have a customer who has installed our software in their Bootcamp partition, but also uses VMware to boot it as a VM. Every time he switches how he boots Windows (bare metal vs VM), it deactivates.

We are a little surprised about this, we expected him to have to activate twice (one for each "machine") and then never again. Can you provide any insight into this issue?

Hey Joel,

Well, even though the customer is using the same Windows partition for both bare-metal and VM boot, he's actually booting 2 different machines. A Virtual Machine is a different machine than the bare-metal machine (the underlying "hardware" is different, and thus the fingerprint is different).

This is actually a perfect use-case for TurboFloat: http://wyday.com/limelm/help/using-turbofloat/

http://wyday.com/limelm/help/vm-hypervisor-licensing/

Your app, using the TurboFloat library, will be able to run no matter whether they're using your app under a bare-metal machine or the virtual machine.

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