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12 years ago

Licencing on VMware virtual machines

Has anyone had any issues using virtual machines and certain altera licences? At work we had Quartus licences that worked fine on all machines. Then we got a load more, and the new ones refuse to wor...
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12 years ago

It seems to be complaining about the system clock within the VM.

Apparently, the RTC is a common enough topic that VMWare wrote a document dedicated to it:

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/timekeeping-in-virtualmachines.pdf

It kind of sounds like FLexLM is having a problem possibly similar to the issue discussed in "Test Operating System Clock Against CMOS TOD Clock" of that PDF.