Well .. I'm thinking this is probably not worth the effort. I though it might be nice to have a single install of FM that could be used by multiple OSes .. because I'd like to be able to easily test plugins under each OS.
I figured I'd start with something "easy" .. FM7.2 .. that's bound to work, no? No. XP let me install on the mounted shared drive, but Vista won't .. it tells me that the drive doesn't exist (even though I can access it through the Explorer). This may be user error and there may be some way around it (I'm not very experienced with Vista), but I have a feeling that this would be a losing battle, and probably isn't worth the trouble. I think that Jay's suggestion to just use a trial version or deauthorize/reauthorize as needed is probably the best option. Thanks for helping me to explore the options! Cheers, ...scott Peter Gold wrote: > Hi, all: > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Jay Maechtlen <techwriter at covad.net> wrote: > >> Can you have Frame installed under each OS, but only 'authorize' the one you >> want to test, then de-authorize it and authorize the next one to test? >> Or can you test them as trial versions? >> I doubt that you'd get a single software install to share across multiple >> copies of Windows, even VMs on a single host. >> I'm sure Adobe wouldn't want that to work. >> > > If this were a Mac, I can see setting different partitions with Mac OS > X versions as start-up disks, yet run the same installed application, > unless the application is designed to be installed on the start-up > disk. > > The question, I guess, is about how Windows handles this. It's quite > possible that authorizing an Adobe installed product may not be a > problem across different VMs on the same physical computer, if the > popular notion that the physical hard disk information is keyed to > authorization. > > At the worst you could waste some time trying to see how Windows works > things out. I can see installing the application to a lettered drive, > other than C:, on one flavor of Win and trying to launch it from > another flavor of Win on another VM. I think this would fail because > Win apps usually need to store some stuff on C: no matter where else > you install the rest of it. > > Let us know what you find out in your experiments. > > > HTH > > Regards, > > Peter > _______________________ > Peter Gold > KnowHow ProServices > > > >> Regards >> Jay >> >> Scott Prentice wrote: >> >>> Hi Peter... >>> >>> Thanks for the info .. very helpful. >>> >>> I was hoping to be able to test FM under various versions of Windows >>> without installing separately on each OS. In theory, using Fusion on a Mac, >>> I can install on each OS (XP, Vista, 7) to the same "shared" location, and >>> it *should* work. The problem is going to be authorization of each instance >>> since that data is stored in the registry of each OS. I have a feeling that >>> I'd not be able to authorize it under each OS since that would be akin to >>> installing on three separate computers (even though it's not really). >>> >>> Oh well. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> ...scott >>> >>> >> -- >> Jay Maechtlen >> 626 444-5112 office >> 626 840-8875 cell >> www.laserpubs.com >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> No infection found in this outgoing message >> Scanned by iolo System Shield? >> http://www.iolo.com >> >> >> > >
