lmhostid: The VM Host ID is not available. (-215,14704)
lmhostid: The VM Host ID is not available. (-215,14704)
Introduction
When running lmhostid.exe on a virtual machine to obtain the VM_UUID the following error has been thrown:
"C:\jmcmillan\x64_n6-11.19.6.0_v6\x64_n6>lmhostid -ptype vm uuid lmhostid - Copyright (c) 1989-2024 Flexera. All Rights Reserved. The FlexNet host ID of this machine is "" lmhostid: The VM Host ID is not available. (-215,14704)"
Cause
This error is thrown if the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service is either not running or is disabled.
Resolution
Start the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service and then restart the Flexnet Licensing Service.
More Information
This problem had occurred on virtual machine (Windows Server 2022) that was running in an ESXi hypervisor.
I'm seeing the same thing when running under Debian Bullseye in an ESXi hypervisor, so the Windows Management Instrumentation service is never run. What could be missing in this instance? The toolkit is based on 11.19.4
license@stc-vc-501:~$ /home/stc/flexlm/lmhostid -ptype vm uuid lmhostid - Copyright (c) 1989-2023 Flexera. All Rights Reserved. The FlexNet host ID of this machine is "" lmhostid: The VM Host ID is not available. (-215,14704)
Got same error as @lee_wheat . Googled and found this PDF where I saw a clue `The FlexNet Licensing Service does not appear to be running.` And few lines above there was a start command: `/usr/local/share/FNP/service64/11.15.0/FNPLicensingService -r` Which started daemon and then the UID retrieval command returned no error.
