The client software is free and unlimited. Normally you pay for the number of servers and USB device connections for which you get a license key. When you need to virtualize server applications that need a locally attached dongle you need to start looking for USB over Ethernet solutions that are reliable, support 圆4 bit, have signed drivers and support your Operating Systems.
The companies have software for that as well. But what’s discussed below is also valid for that problem. When we start talking about physical COM port mapping (SMS Gateways anyone and other “esoteric” engineering toys …) it’s the same issue. The solution to that problem can be solved USB over Ethernet software. Some quality desktop virtualization solutions like VMware workstation do offer USB support but the heavy duty server production hypervisors do not. There is no USB device on a virtual machine to stick that dongle into. The only cookies they have are poisonous ?īut short of all the stupid issues paying customers will have with license dongles, when it’s time to virtualize the servers you’re in trouble. I might prevent the occasional unlicensed use but it has never stopped a determined “pirate” from cracking & hacking the dongles or the software and offering that solutions on the dark side of the internet.
A lot of software vendors have decided that such measures are needed to protect ‘m from piracy.
One of the biggest showstoppers people come across when virtualizing servers is often software license dongles.