I currently have IS 2009 Professional. Want to do CI builds on MS Virtual PC's for different projects. I have read that IS will not run on Virtual PC due to the way DRM works. If I upgrade to IS 2009 Premier to get the Stand Alone Builder feature, will the Stand Alone Builder work on a Virtual PC. Has anybody done this? Any info would be appreciated. Don't want to spend the money if this won't work.
The stand alone build has an extremely simple license key checker during the install and no additional runtime checks. I've run CI builds via VSTS TFS TeamBuild on EXS, Virtual Server and Hyper-V. I've never tried Virtual PC but I have no reason to believe it wouldn't work.
But here's the rub. It's been said to me that there's a strong possibility that the next version of the stand alone build will have DRM built it into. It's anyones guess if a) this will work in a VM environment and b) what the administrative cost of managing the activation will be.
