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Why do I have to Activate when booted from VMWare Fusion?

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I have a valid license for ATIH 2012 for my MacBook Pro and have used it to create backups when booted directly into Windows from the Boot Camp partition.

For the first time I booted into Windows using VMWare Fusion and since the backup drive was still connected I assigned the backup drive as a Windows drive. All normal so far.

When I open ATIH 2012 it is saying that the hardware has changed and I have to reactivate.

How do I approach this? Clearly VMWare is sending a different hardware ID to ATIH 2012 but the reality is that it is still the same installation and there is no sense of running more than one copy of ATIH 2012 at once.

Thanks, David

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True Image 2012 is not supported on Mac OS. It includes bootcamp native mode, but not virtual environment - there it's ok. So the problem of dual activation was most likely never considered.

Yes, I agree that TI 2012 does not run directly under Mac OS but it does run when in VMWare, which "fools" it into thinking that it is running on a PC with Windows.

The issue is that VMWare gives it a different hardware ID.

Since you only have one license, you can move the license between the different machine configurations. Not convenient, but the only alternative is to buy an additional license. See this for more details http://kb.acronis.com/content/22154.

I realize that you are working on a single computer, even when using a single Windows computer, when un-installing and re-installing ATIH, Acronis sometimes thinks that the product has been activated on more than one system, You can delete the original system activation (even though it is the same system), and then re-activate the same system again. You may have to do this if you reconfigure your virtual machines, as different hardware could be detected every time you do. This only takes a minute or so to do.