Anyone advice with a legacy vm?
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Hi all,
we have a windows server based vm running on vmware, this vm is a conversion of a physical machine that was running at a customer location, we migrated it to vmware last year because there is a sentinel license service inside this vm that has a legacy license running for SPSS, the customer is not able to reactive this license. Buying a new license is very expensive so they wanted to keep this thing alive.
As said, we allready migrated from physical to virtual without losing the lisence, however migrating this machine from vmware to XCP does break the license running inside the sentinel license manager, we believe maybe because it detects hardware changes or so.
I had the idea to migrate this vm into a vm running on XCP and install vmware workstation to run the vm but it seems vmware workstation does not want to run inside nested virtualisation.
Anyone an idea how we could possibly migrate this vm without changing the hardware so much it does break the license?
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In the end it turned out the license was bound to the network card, we needed to recreate it with the original mac and the license server started again! Case closed!