Fixed Licenses installed on a VM?

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Hi,

I have 5 fixed licenses of FME Desktop Smallworld Edition.

Is it possible to install FME on to 5 virtual instances, that any user within my team can remote in to and use? I understand this would be limited to one user per instance. Therefore meaning the license is on the node, not on a named user?

In an ideal world, we would have floating licenses, but this is not possible.

Thanks,

Steve

Answer 1 · 2018-12-13T17:46:57Z

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Answer by catatsafe · Dec 13, 2018 at 05:46 PM

Hi @steveway,

Yup, you've got it. Fixed licenses are node locked, and can be installed on a virtual machine as long as they are limited to a single user. And as @erik_jan mentions, make sure the MAC address is fixed. This article, while specifically talking about cloud machines, is valid for all virtual machines. https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/60408/fme-desktop-on-amazon-aws-ec2.html

Cheers,

Cat

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Answer 2 · 2018-12-13T15:03:47Z

Answer by erik_jan · Dec 13, 2018 at 03:03 PM

Yes, that is possible, as long as the VM has a fixed MAC address.

VM's usually have a virtual network card that can be set to a fixed (not changing) MAC address.

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