Tourweaver on VMware Fusion (Mac)

I could not get my copy of Tourweaver 3.0 Pro nor 4.0 Pro to activate properly on my copy of Windows XP Pro on my Mac laptop. I am running VMware Fusion, not Parallels or Microsoft Virtual PC as my virtualization software. The Offline activation using the ARF generator did not work either. I suspect that this is because your programs activation sequence is not compatible with the way VMware Fusion creates the virtual network adapters. I have tried using both Bridged and NAT networking in the virtual machine; activation still fails.

 

The solution was to use a USB 3G cellular modem that I plugged into a virtual machine that was already up and running and logged in (Windows XP Pro). Windows and Tourweaver both recognized it as actual hardware, instead of a virtual network connection, and the activation worked perfectly. VMware Fusion is a popular (and arguably the best) virtualization software available for Mac. It has become very popular in North America, and since many photographers use Macs, I think that maybe Easypano should consider doing some research into why your activation sequence fails using this software, so that future versions of Tourweaver can be more seamlessly compatible.

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Roger Middleton

360 and Beyond - Vancouver
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Hi I know Fusion behaves quick promptly in virtualization mode.

I am using Parallels and I never encountered a problem activating Tourweaver.

So I guess if Easypano investigates the problem, (it might help them finding the solution) they should consider the specific way Fusion works.

best

thierry

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Hi Roger,

Same problem, probably same configuration as yours (fusion 1.1, XP SP2) MacBook Pro 2.2, Same results.

The turnaround was found in sending a message to easypano mail support.

Genseng asked me for my MAC unique ID, and sent me two files (vip.htm & gis.htm) and where I had to place them.
It instantly worked

But I still deeply regret that there is need of turnarounds are necessary when Easypasno is recommending the use of VMWare fusion on Macintosh platform Very weird way, for client satisfaction.

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Mac OS X Tiger Or Leopard - VMWare fusion 2.05