Hello I just spent a week and change setting up a new laptop Win11 OS with the latest VMware Workstation Pro 17.2 trying to activate NI software for 7 different versions of Labview on 7 virtual machines covering l7 years. Note these are virtual machines being used since the version came out on a native WinXP, Win10 and the latest laptop on Win11. The newer versions of labview 2014(WinXP vm) , 2016(Win7 vm) , and 2021(Win10 vm) were fairly quickly activated with the newer the version the easier activation was.
The older versions labview 8.6 , 2009, 2011, and 2012 are each on WinXP vm. All of these older versions on XP vm had been used on Win XP and 10 native machines without any issues. When I migrated the vm's over to the new Win11 laptop all 4 of these older versions which came with perpetual licenses now showed up with red exclamation marks vs the green squares in NILM observed prior and stating "activated on another machine".
I couldnt find any relevant info on NI website and tech support had me try numerous things that couldnt get my vm's back to the state they had been in activated forever on prior laptop. The last thing I thought to try unfortunately was when you first launch vm on laptop after copying over the vm files to the laptop is a popup appears with two buttons "I moved it", "I copied it", with a comment to the effect if you not sure select the copied button. Thats what I had done on prior computers without issue was to select the "copied" button. The "moved" button cured all the problems and the NILM came up with green squares and never expiration activated on this computer for all modules without even going thru activation process. I was thinking about retiring trying to get the "copied" button activation going as it didnt look like it was going to happen.
Just wanted to post this to possibly save someone else the pain I went thru. Good Luck
