Ask HN: Best practices around fingerprinting a virtual machine for licensing?

Posted by triceratop on Thursday July 05, 2018 @11:30AM
from the ask-hn dept.

What's a solid way to "fingerprint" a VM instance? I can't really find a good metric to use that can't easily be confgured...

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Re:Ask HN: Best practices around fingerprinting a virtual ma... by jmgmrv34gg43 on Thursday July 05, 2018 @11:35AM (#17464073)

If MSFT don't do it, and use audit licensing instead, that might be a clue that it's not a sustainable and reliable mechanism for license enforcement.

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