Cannot Install Application in Guest Win7 System

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Master Lee
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Cannot Install Application in Guest Win7 System

Post by Master Lee »

Hi everyone, i'm using a ViurutalBox 5.0 on an Ubuntu 15.10 Host,and i create a Win7 32bit VM as Guest OS.

Everything is fine at the beginning,but when i tried to install an private application of my company,i got an error indicator says:" does not support Virtual Machine,Type-2".

The application i tried to install is something like "document safer",it works perfectly fine in a real Win7 32bit environment,but keep on failing in the VM envrionment.

What Could i do to fix this ?

Thanks very much.
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mpack
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Re: Cannot Install Application in Guest Win7 System

Post by mpack »

Some applications do not allow themselves to be installed in a VM, for piracy reasons.

There are many ways for an application to detect that it's running in a VM, and no way to prevent it. You would need to contact the technical support for that application if you believe you have legitimate reasons to run the app in a VM.
Master Lee
Posts: 6
Joined: 11. Aug 2016, 10:31
Primary OS: MS Windows 7
VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
Guest OSses: ubuntu
Location: Nanjing,China

Re: Cannot Install Application in Guest Win7 System

Post by Master Lee »

mpack wrote:Some applications do not allow themselves to be installed in a VM, for piracy reasons.

There are many ways for an application to detect that it's running in a VM, and no way to prevent it. You would need to contact the technical support for that application if you believe you have legitimate reasons to run the app in a VM.

Thanks very much
No time for a gentle life
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