Licensing: Using Pro and Free parallel ?

[lpcware]

Content originally posted in LPCWare by mch0 on Wed Feb 24 05:31:16 MST 2016
Hi,

I have a Pro License which is working fine.
A few days ago I installed LPCXpresso in a Virtual Machine to produce a tutorial. The VM ensures that I see the same procedure for a completely fresh installation as my students will see.
For the activation as Free Edition I logged on at lpcware with my regular account (the one I'm using right now).
Everythig worked fine technically.
Bit when I reverted today to my "normal" installation outside the VM an started LPCxpresso it said it was "UNREGISTERED" !
I have re-activated it successfully with my license management account (softworkz).
However I have a very bad feeling going back to the VM with the Free Edition to continue work on the tutorials.

Somehow the activations seem to have got mixed up and I don't want to risk another loss of the pro activation unless I understand what has happened.
As far as I can tell both installations should be isolated against each other completely, one running in the VM an the other on the host.

Is there any explanation how this "unregistering" could have happened?
I have now read something about an "offline license" achieved by a separate license file for a particular computer. Would that avoid such a behaviour?



Thanks,

Mike

[lpcware]

Content originally posted in LPCWare by mch0 on Mon Feb 29 07:42:32 MST 2016
Thank you for clarifying this!

The "pro license" on the guest and the "free license" within the VM do not seem to interfere (any more). Whatever caused this "unregistering" has not happend since and due to you pointer to the license management I also feel more secure about that.

Thanks,

Mike

[lpcware]

Content originally posted in LPCWare by lpcxpresso-support on Wed Feb 24 07:31:39 MST 2016
Details of how licenses are stored on your machine can be found at:

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But most of the development team here run exactly in way you describe - with multiple native and VM based installation running in parallel using different licenses. The license in each case should be stored on the machine itself as per the above FAQ.

I suspect that the fact that your Pro  license became unregistered at the same time as you used the Free license under a VM is a coincidence, and nothing more.

If you see this happen again, please feel free to send details to our LPCXpresso Pro support team directly (using the details supplied at the time of purchase, or else using the Help -> Support option of your Pro installation.

Regards,
LPCXpresso Support