To be sure this will work for you, pen a command prompt (start, run, cmd) on your virtual machine and try to ping the host using it’s computer name. In the case VMware Workstation, I’ve found the default settings allow the host to be reached by it’s computer name, and that’s what I enter into the activation manager. Accessing the host via the virtual networkįor the FactoryTalk Activation Manager installed on your virtual PC to find your host’s activations using your host’s IP Address or Computer Name, it has to have a virtual network connection to it. When using Windows XP Mode which we discussed earlier this week here, or other virtualization solutions like VMware Workstation which we covered last week here, it’s very common to want the virtual PC to share our FactoryTalk Activations installed on our Host OS.Īnd the easiest way to do that is to either add our Host PC’s IP address, or computer name, to the FactoryTalk Activation Manager (FTAM) installed on our virtual machine.īut what do you do when this doesn’t work? In today’s article we’ll cover two things you’ll need to have in working order before you can share your Host’s activations with your Virtual PC.
