Problem installing snl (solidworks network licensing)

[pandan]

Hi to everyone (and sorry for my English).
I m using proxmox 3.0 since 2 years and i never had a problem before.
Recently my organization bought "solidwork epm" that requires the istallation of snl (solidworks network licensing).
Installing that software on a virtulal "windows server 2008 r2 std" gives me the message (traslating from italian) "the license activation is not supported in this virtual environment . you can continue with the installation , but the activation fails" .
The questions are:
How can it know in which evironment is running?
How can I set my virtual environment to be like a certificated one, like VmWare and Hyper-V are?
I have a plan B: install snl on a physical machine but i consider it a failure...

Thanks in advance.

 

[tom]

I do not know this software and how they do their check, but maybe it helps if you set a defined virtual CPU for your VM (choose the same model as you have physically).

 

[pandan]

Thank for your help Tom,
I already tried almost all combination of cpu, graphic card, network card, but with no results. (also tried cpu hosted...)

 

[fireon]

What is with "SMBIOS settings (type1)" Here you can enter UUID, Manufaturer.... maybe this should help, comined with the CPU.

 

[macday]

Hi,

I think this helps:

maybe can you try to add in your vmid.conf

machine: pc-i440fx-1.7

 

[l.ansaloni]

Thanks fireon e macday,
I have the same problem a and I tried your solution without success:

proxmox00:~# dmidecode -t 0
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.6 present.


Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
        Vendor: Intel Corp.
        Version: SE5C600.86B.01.03.0002.062020121504
        Release Date: 06/20/2012
        Address: 0xF0000
        Runtime Size: 64 kB
        ROM Size: 8192 kB
        Characteristics:
                PCI is supported
                BIOS is upgradeable
                BIOS shadowing is allowed
                Boot from CD is supported
                Selectable boot is supported
                EDD is supported
                5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
                8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
                Serial services are supported (int 14h)
                Printer services are supported (int 17h)
                ACPI is supported
                USB legacy is supported
                BIOS boot specification is supported
                Targeted content distribution is supported
        BIOS Revision: 4.6

proxmox00:~# dmidecode -t 1
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.6 present.


Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
        Manufacturer: INTEL
        Product Name: MFS2600KI Compute Module
        Version: To be filled by O.E.M.
        Serial Number: QSKI24900280
        UUID: 520F312C-3E44-E211-AB72-001E6763C9E4
        Wake-up Type: Other
        SKU Number: To be filled by O.E.M.
        Family: To be filled by O.E.M.

File: /etc/pve/qemu-server/100.conf

args: -smbios type=0,vendor="Intel Corp.",version=SE5C600.86B.01.03.0002.062020121504,date=06/20/2012 -smbios type=1,manufacturer=INTEL,product="MFS2600KI Compute Module",serial=QSKI24900280,uuid=520F312C-3E44-E211-AB72-001E6763C9E4
machine: pc-i440fx-1.5
bootdisk: ide0
cores: 1
cpu: host
ide0: RAID5-SAS:vm-100-disk-1,size=32G
ide2: none,media=cdrom
memory: 2048
name: winprova
net0: e1000=F2:68:E7:11:27:A8,bridge=vmbr0
ostype: win7
sockets: 1
vga: vmware

You have other ideas?

Thanks a lot,
Lorenzo

 

[l.ansaloni]

This is the message that appears after the installation of SolidWorks Enterprise PDM:

 

[pandan]

SNL uses FlexNet. It recognizes the virtualizer ...It reads here in the "Virtualization Support" sectionhttp://www.flexerasoftware.com/producer/products/software-monetization/flexnet-licensing/tab/features