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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] rambos 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

If it's Respondus Lockdown Browser, their VM detection goes off even if you're on Windows

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With vbox I don't think you can do that, nor with any other hypervisor delivering full virtualization. You could try with a paravirtualization, like Xen, and see if you can trick the OS

Note that I don't know if windows is supported as a paravirtualized guest.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's patches for QEMU that bypasses anticheats and hides the virtualization and even makes Windows' use its own virtualization based protection.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Was about to post this. Running qemu command line can do this, unfortunately I don't have my old scripts to do it. It's pretty common when doing GPU passthrough, so maybe look there?

[–] rambos 1 points 1 year ago

This looks promising, will give it a try thx!

[–] thalience 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 3 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Everything I find seems like possible at first, but then too dificult to understand and possibly outdated

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see several torrents for solidworks 2016 on 1337x

[–] rambos 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pirate a cracked version of the app so there's no activation at all?

[–] rambos 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be nice if I could find one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rambos 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes.

Even if it's more limited compared to Solidworks, I bet learining to "cope" with FreeCAD will be easier in then end. One can even do CAD with Blander nowdays, but it's very different. Especially how you later undo an action.

[–] rambos 2 points 1 year ago