Linux License Server?

[pcurt]

We are replacing our old server this month.  The new one will use CentOS instead of Windows.  I'd like to move our single floating Circuit Design Suite license to the new system.

I found a knowledgebase article with instructions on how to use a FlexNet licensing server, but the article specifically says that only Solaris is supported.  Has anyone had success hosting a NI volume license on a Linux server?  I'm tempted to try the Solaris lmgrd.exe on the Linux distribution....just to see if it works.  I'd like to avoid any major problems as I would rather not request new license files for our new machine, only to have to request them again for NI VLM.

An altnernative may be to run the NI VLM software within a Windows virtual machine on the Linux server.  Has anyone tried this?

Thanks for your help.

[Tanya_V]

Hi pcurt,

Unfortunately the National Instruments volume license files don't work with Linux. Even if the FLEX license server runs, the NI license files won't work.

You should be able to run the license server on a virtual Windows OS, but this would always need to be running.

Take care!