Odd VM Behavior

[UrbanCyborg]

Just had a first-time occurrence: when I ran VM for the first time today, it asked me for my password, which it never does. The only password I could supply was the one I log to the store with. When I supplied that, it proceeded to redownload all 1053 modules that I own. Now, I've seen the posts from people who've had something like this happen, but so far as I know, the situations aren't parallel. Why would VM have wanted me to manually log in in the first place, when it's run for more than a year with no problems?

Reid

[PoorFellow]

Since it's all software then what causes something like that would be if something like user action, VM program internals, Windows internals or external programs modifies some value of something somewhere in VM or Windows ? registry that triggers it or if some file gets modified or deleted. At least something along those lines. What exactly I wouldn't know since I am not privy as to how the DRM of the program works.
On top of that then you are the one that are in charge of your computer , not that that makes you privy to all that happens on that either , but at least you would have some idea about if there were some kind of recent events on your computer, mishap or other, to which that you could write off the event.
I am sure that you are probably not very happy about my lack of insight , but problem is that even people that have had the event happen to them might not be the wiser so chance is that this kind of answer is all that you will get unless a developer or someone from support with knowledge of program internals spots your question.
Best bet for a better and more qualified answer would be to ask a developer through support or to report it as a possible bug if you think that nothing that you did or that happened on your computer could possibly have caused this.
I would like to add though that it's often very hard these days to gain understanding of what happens on ones computer. I myself one day discovered that another program running Java or Java-script disturbed the functionality of VM or VM modules , I can not remember the details (sorry) and do not really care not even if some developer would claim that that is impossible (not saying that the dev. would I am just saying) , I noticed it closed the other program , closed VM and restarted and Voila , problem gone. Sometimes your AV screws with things cause it roams automatically and so on.. Often one program can interfere with the working of another that's just simple facts these days...

[drohnee]

Just had a first-time occurrence: when I ran VM for the first time today, it asked me for my password, which it never does. The only password I could supply was the one I log to the store with. When I supplied that, it proceeded to redownload all 1053 modules that I own.

I can't provide any insight into why this happened, but I can report that I experienced something similar a couple of months ago on my macOS installation of VM. One day when I opened it, the program prompted me for a password, and then did a full download of all modules again. I hadn't made any recent purchases or anything that seemed like an obvious culprit at the time. No idea what caused it, but I haven't had this happen again (yet).

[seal58]

I would assume, that a rather big system update for VM server can look as NEW COMPUTER, because system version can have been changed.
You can check DEVICES page within your VM profile. Probably you can see same PC name as before, but the same with newer date too.

[UrbanCyborg]

That's all possible, but then, why wouldn't VMD have done the same thing?

Reid

[seal58]

VM and VMD must always be same version and must use same module library. So both programs will reload all modules and ressources. I've seen same behavior on my PC after a bigger Windows update on 12th Oct 2022.

[UrbanCyborg]

But they are the same version.

Reid

[seal58]

That may be. But basically VM and VMD are different programs that work independent of each other within PC system. When I analyzed VM folders on my PC, it looked as both programs don't share many Voltage ressources.
So I find, it makes sense to reload all ressources from CA server for both programms.
Fortunately big Windows updates appear only once or twice per year. So it's not a big thing to me.
Roland