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bewen
Occasional Contributor
3 years ago

TestComplete thinks im running on a virtual machine

Hi, im trying to load up TestComplete on my system, I have a fixed license to be able to use TestComplete. Everything was working fine yesterday, but today TestComplete is saying I am running the app...
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rraghvani
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2 years ago

A Fixed User license cannot be used on physical computers that have Hyper-V enabled. To run TestComplete, you can use a Floating license, or you can disable Hyper-V via

 

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pstjohn
Occasional Contributor
2 years ago

Yes, that is the workaround (and what I did).  Love the workflow of having to turn off a Windows feature and reboot my computer if I want to run TestComplete (or spend thousands more).  

And while I still think the limitation is silly for a common configuration it is certainly at least worthy of mentioning in all the same places that not being able to run on VM is mentioned.