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Title sounds confusing and It might be wrong terminology, sorry about that. I have POP OS and windows in VM (virtualbox) for few apps that are not available on linux. Im trying to install one app that requires diferent activation method because it recognized Im running virtual machine. Is there any way to hide that so I can activate the app the way I usually do on non-VM windows?

I hope I was clear enough, cheers

Edit: typo

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[–] thalience@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It might be possible to trick the app's activation function. But before you can do that, you'd have to understand how it is checking for virtualization, so that you know what aspect of the VM's behavior to tweak.

Someone on Lemmy might be able to help you with that, if they knew what app you were trying to use...

[–] rambos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im trying to install solidworks 2016 and Im getting same error like the one on the next link:

https://serverfault.com/questions/727347/solidworks-activation-license-mode-is-not-supported-in-this-virtual-environment

Everything I find seems like possible at first, but then too dificult to understand and possibly outdated

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see several torrents for solidworks 2016 on 1337x

[–] rambos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Tbh I see only one, but maybe im using wrong instance. Ill look again, it would be much easier if I find one that doesnt need activation.