Virbox Protector License: Offline Environment

For some developer worked in offline environment, Virbox supports to use license key (a series characters string, numbers) to activate the Virbox Protector license and binding the machine in offline environment.

Note: this document applied for Virbox Protector 3.3.2.xxx version or above

Basically, to activate the license key in offline environment includes 3 steps:

Prerequisites:

1. Download and install Virbox Protector installation package into the machine in offline environment;

2. Get the license key in your hand (Trial license key or formal release license key for the developer who purchase the commercial license)

Steps

1. Generate the c2d file from the offline machine

   The software developer use the Virbox Protector to generate the c2d file in offline machine (the process to collect the machine hardware fingerprinting information which to use binding license later, c2d means "customer to developer").

2. Exchange/Get d2c file in Virbox License User Center

   Developer use the c2d file and license key in online environment to exchange/get correspondence d2c file from Virbox License User Center. and download this unique d2c file into the online machine. (d2c file which means "developer to customer")

3. Use d2c file to activate the license.

   Copy this d2c file from online machine and take this d2c file and import it in to the machine in offline environment (intranet). double click d2c file to activate the license.

Process to activate License key in offline environment

In this part, we introduce the process to activate the license key in offline environment in details. developer may refer and follow up the process to bind the license with the machine in offline and activate the license accordingly.

The process to activate the license key in offline environment includes following steps.

Step 0

Execute and start up Virbox Protector GUI tool in offline environment, click The button License Information in right top corner of Virbox Protector GUI tools：

Then a box will popup and click the button License Center as shown in below:

Note:

License Center is the local web license verification tools in your local machine, it will show all of license available and add or remove the license.

To view access local machine, the on default IP adress is 127.0.0.1; if you want to view and access network license, you can change IP address respectively;

Step 1 Generate the c2d file

Click add license

Then new box popup, as shown as in below, Click to go to Offline Upgrade Package tab. and follow with 2 step to generate c2d files.

Save the c2d file to specified directory and copy from c2d file later

Step 2 exchange and get d2c file from Virbox User license center

Copy the c2d file which download and saved in specified directory. and go back to online environment

Open browser, open Virbox User License Center

https://user.lm.virbox.com/sn/login.html

Input your license key, and input CAPTCHA code to login

then you will login Virbox User License Center to exchange and get d2c file

Then you will find a d2c file generated and download in your online machine. Go to download directory and copy this d2c file and go back to offline environment.

Step 3 Use d2c file to activate license in offline machine

Now, you have copied the d2c file to your machine in offline environment (which install Virbox Protecor)

Action: add d2c file to Virbox User license tool in your offline machine with:

Double click the d2c file

In this step, it is required to use Virbox User license Tool to add d2c file (the tools to generate the c2d file) again.

you can click Virbox GUI tool to open License center as you have done in Step 1:

A Box shown license information popup

Click the button Add license

Follow below steps to add the d2c file save in your offline machine and confirm to import

when import d2c file, you can find the license add in your License center, and the Virbox License has been activated. you can use Virbox Protector to protect your project from now.

Now, you can Open Virbox Protector GUI tools, and click License Information in right top corner, to view the license added.

you can find the license information added with below windows, if not find new license, click refresh to view the license status.

Now, you have completed the whole process to bind and activate the license in the machine in offline environment.