I have attached a screen-shot of my FT Activation Mgr and VM network set-up to show the connection. This is the private network that only allows traffic from the Host OS to the VM(s). The way I have this set-up is to have my VM look for activations on the host using the IP address of the host in the "Host-Only" network. I have added a screen shot of the VM Network setup. I guess a good question is whether it is possible to just put the license in the VM Guest and be done with it or does it have to be on the host because that is where the device for the hardware lock it?
I noticed in the Guest network browser there is a vmware-host entry but that doesn't seem to work to get to the server on the host either.
So I put in the host computer name in the FT Activation server list but that doesn't always work because sometimes the computer is connected via WiFi and sometimes on a hard cable and for some reason our DNS server doesn't update the addresses very quickly which is frustrating but something I don't have control over. My issue is that we connect to our server here with DHCP and the computer will not always get the same IP address. I have everything installed and set up to have FT Activation server on the Windows 8 Host and RSLogix500 and FT in the Windows7 VM. Supposedly, according to what I have read, passthrough should work fine with Windows 8.Īs for getting the activation, why not just download the activation to the host (with FT Activation Mgr installed), and then point the activation path on the VM back to the host PC (using the host IP address on a private network)? There is a known issue with USB 3.0 pass through in VMware workstation, all the way up to 9.1, IF the host is Win 7 or earlier. I got the software loaded by sharing a folder between the host and guest but now I have to activate the RSLogix 500 and can't get the USB attached to the guest to run the EVMOVECF program. I have never really had any problems with VMware (after I figured out how the networking gets set up). Have you ever experienced this? After that crash, he mouse is sluggish for about 5 minutes even in the host. But, when I tried to attach the USB memory stick with RSLogix 500 on it, VMWare crashes.
We have VMware Workstation 9 loaded on the machine and a Windows 7 PRO 64-bit Guest set up.
IT got a new laptop for one of my project guys with Windows 8. I know just enough to be dangerous in VMware Workstation. Sorry to resurrect an old thread but hopefully someone here has some clue to a problem I'm having.