Introducing JetBrains Toolbox

Re:Introducing JetBrains Toolbox by cscharenberg on Thursday September 03, 2015 @01:47PM (#10166427)

This is a good question. I usually have multiple PyCharm instances running and have never had a problem. I never thought about it until my wife started up PyCharm on my other computer and I got a notice saying another computer on the network was using a license and one of us needed to quit.

JetBrains needs to reassure us multiple instances are ok on same machine and across VMs. Will running the IDE in OS X and also a guest Linux VM look like multi-machine use? If so, that's really a bad flaw in licensing.

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Re:Introducing JetBrains Toolbox by Stratoscope on Thursday September 03, 2015 @02:02PM (#10166540)

I was under the impression that they treat a VM like a separate machine - but now I'm not sure. I started IDEA in OSX and a Windows 10 VM on the same machine ten minutes ago, and so far neither instance has complained. I know IDEA has complained when I've run it on the Mac and my ThinkPad.

If this is legit and I can run IDEA on the host machine and in one or more VMs on the same machine, that would be a very good thing for multiplatform developers.

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Re:Introducing JetBrains Toolbox by gorohoroh on Thursday September 03, 2015 @01:53PM (#10166471)

We're not changing anything in this regard: if it works now, it will work the same way with new subscription licenses.

If you encounter a case when a setup like this doesn't work, please contact JetBrains and we'll look into resolving the problem.

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