Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Is it possible to run two copies of Poser simultaneously on the same computer?

strongbear opened this issue on Mar 04, 2013 ยท 52 posts


shvrdavid posted Mon, 04 March 2013 at 8:50 PM

Any EULA that say you can only run it on one computer at a time is subject to scrutiny.

By the wording, you should be able to run as many instances of the same program as you want to as long as they are all running on the same machine.

They will have to be run within protected virtual machines for it to work. (VM's are memory and write protected unless set up otherwise, but network access will need modified in most cases for various reasons.)

In a virtual machine there is no way that the program can overwrite any temp files because none of them are ever stored in the same spot.

The one run in the main operating system will write to root.

IE: C:Users:Owner:AppData:Roaming:Poser Pro

And all the virtual machines will write to root.

IE: C:Users:Owner:AppData:Roaming:Poser Pro

Even thou the paths are exactly the same, they are not in the same spot. One is a directory, the other is in a file.

That is the primary purpose of a virtual machine, to completely seperate a program from the main operating system.



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