Licence Management in SVS
tageur
May 25th, 2008
1) If we Publish an application with a single license and If we try to deploy it to two users. What happens?
2) Revoke the license for the application. Does the application un-install?
3) How does license management works in SVS(By deploying it using AppStream)?
4) If we create a VSA of winrar and use winrar to extract some rar files or create some rar file then on deactivating that layer(Winrar) all the files that were extracted or the rar files that were created gets removed.This happens as the above files goes in writable layer ?But is there some way so that these files do not get deleted?
Let's give you some help!
1) When you publish a single user license a couple of things can happen, but it depends on the licensing.
When you take a applikation like Adobe writer, the second user gets a message with the question to activate the applikation within 5 day's. So the license does not get over to other pc's.
When you have a license method like that one is used in many games, you build a package and activate inside the package. You cann deploy it to every machine you wish. But: That is officially not allowed. So in AppStream you set license count to one.
In Malta i gave a little demonstration with a altered SVS version that captured all the version, and even software that needed a dongle was captured. How that worked? Easy. The applikation needed the dongle on every first run, took a key from the dongle to decrypt the license.
That process was captured completely, and the software was working without the dongle. But: Also this is not allowed by law. That technique is a called a license cracker.
2) The software never get's uninstalled. it just stops functioning.
3)In SVS there is no license management.
In SVS Pro (AppStream) license management is done by checking on the server when the user starts the applikation. So if a user starts a applikation, it sends a signal to the server and the server starts counting.
4)You have to build a exclusion for the location were you drop the unzipped files.
Be carefull with exclusions. Building a exclusion for the whole C drive stops the virtualisation. You activate a lyer, and all files will stay on the machine. Give a search query on the juice for exclusions, and read it carefully. Then get started carefully.
Regards
Erik
www.dvs4sbc.nl
Regards
Erik
www.DinamiQs.com
Dinamiqs is the home of VirtualStorm (www.virtualstorm.org)
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