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khodd
Contributor
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Converter EULA - Reboot every 24 Hours???

Hello Everyone,

According to the EULA for Converter Starter Edition:

"(iii) the Software containing the Products contains a security feature that will cause the computer system to reboot without prior notification to the end-user after 24 hours of continuous use; and (iv) all customer support issues pertaining to the Software will be handled solely by VMware"

I am somewhat adverse to using the product if the converted machine is going to reboot every 24 hours without notice...

And no where (that I could find) on the main VMWare site is this limitation advertised. I would suspect that this should be indicated on the feature comparison table but it is not there.

Does this actually happen?

Kevin

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bretti
Expert
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I have not seen this happen. Anyone else seen this?

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esiebert7625
Immortal
Immortal

Wow, someone actually reads those EULA's =;-)

I've never seen that behavior before, it's a free product so I can't believe it's because of licensing. I wonder what they mean by "Continuous use" the agent runs as a service on the computer to be converted and by default is always enabled. I've never seen a server reboot that was running the agent. Maybe some of the guys from Vmware that post here can look into it. I wouldn't be too concerned about it though, too my knowledge nobody has ever reported that behavior in these forums.

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Jasemccarty
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Immortal

That's interesting.

I was wondering why those boxes kept rebooting every night...

LOL, just kidding. No reboots here.

Jase McCarty - @jasemccarty
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admin
Immortal
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I believe this refers to the BootCD rebooting after 24 hours. The BootCD is based on WinPE which reboots after 24 hours to prevent it from being used as a "real" OS.

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pdmana
Contributor
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Hi,

I converted several servers and no reboots noticed for several weeks now.

Patrick

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esiebert7625
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That makes sense, I used to use BartPE alot and seem to remember that also.....thanks

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admin
Immortal
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It wouldn't affect the CONVERTED systems. It's only if you left the BootCD running, and it would be rare to have that running more than 24 hours to cold clone your machine.

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