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Bypassing "This application cannot run on a Virtual Machine" error on Windows VMs

Hi,

I’m a student and my college has setup Azure VMs for those of us that need powerful computers to work on over the summer/quarantine. I use several programs on a physical computer that I just can’t on my Virtual Machine due to the developer disallowing it. Would there be anyway to bypass this?

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ManuPhilip answered pituach commented

Hello @Vetri-6676,


I suggest you to ask the question in the application's support forum. They should have some solution by registry tweak or something like that.


Please mark as "Accept the answer" if the above steps helps you. Others with similar issues can also follow the solution as per your suggestion


Regards,


Manu


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I actually think that the OP should ask these who provided him the Virtual Machine, which seems like he is using for a different purpose from the one that he got it for.

"tweak" the protection which someone put, sounds to me like abusing of the reason he got it, and probably something which is also not legal or at least unethical.

If this is a University for example then for doing such "tweak" you can find yourself ban from the university for few years! The restrictions on student's behavior is higher than the limitation of the government rules. Students can be ban on unethical behavior and not only as a result of illegal actions!

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pituach answered pituach edited

Good day @Vetri-6676,


Please hear me well as someone who worked in university in the past!


From your message it sound pretty clear that you got the VM for specific use related to your learning. It was not given to you for playing games probably. Attempt to "tweak" the permission and bypass the reason which you got the VM for, might have a very harsh result on your future in the university.


It is clearly not your VM and if it does not fit your needs then you should contact the person in-charge who provided you the VM. It is not your place to "tweak" it!


Putting this aside, you question is totally not related to Microsoft forums if you are speaking about third party application. More information is needed in order to know what is the source of the issue and what is the architecture of the system, as well as the requirement of the App which you try to use.


In this point I agree with @ManuPhilip and if any technical change should be done with the approve of the university, and assuming that the person who in-charge on the machines do not know what to do but want to do it (which make no sense) then you should probably ask the question in forums of the third party app


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DSPatrick answered

due to the developer disallowing it

May need to ask the developer about what environments are supported.






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