Hostids to Support Virtualization Policy

Your software publisher may choose to enforce a Virtualization support policy using the special hostid constructs in the license file. Three hostids are available for use in license file–based license servers running inside virtual machine: VM_UUID, ETHER, and VM_GENID.

VM_GENID is the Generation ID of the virtual machine and has the following restrictions:

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Windows guests only

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Not used as a traditional hostid—for example, may be provided in a VENDOR_STRING field.

Refer to the Virtualization white paper for the example usage of VM_GENID.

Note:The FlexNet Licensing Service must be installed on machines that use virtualization features.