Activate a VirtualZones license key
Activate your key
Section titled “Activate your key”- Find your license key in the purchase email from Lemon Squeezy.
- In VirtualZones, click License… on the License card.
- Paste the key into Enter your license key:.
- Click Activate or press Enter. You need an internet connection.
- You’ll see
License activated. Thank you for supporting VirtualZones!and the dialog closes.
The License card now shows Licensed to <your name>, the name from your purchase. (Licenses activated before version 1.3.14 show Licensed. until the next online check adds the name.)
Activating registers this PC under its computer name, so you can recognize it later. Re-activating the same key on the same PC doesn’t use another activation.
Offline use
Section titled “Offline use”- VirtualZones re-checks your license silently about every 14 days when online. This never uses an activation.
- If it can’t reach the server, nothing happens: the license keeps working.
- The license stays valid for 30 days after the last successful check. After that, VirtualZones behaves as unlicensed (the trial-expired state) until it can check again. It retries every minute and restores the license automatically as soon as you’re online. No prompt is shown and nothing needs re-entering.
So you can work offline for up to a month at a time.
If a license is revoked
Section titled “If a license is revoked”If the server reports the key is no longer valid (for example after a refund, or if you deactivated it from another PC), the stored license is removed on the next check and VirtualZones returns to the trial state.
Troubleshooting activation
Section titled “Troubleshooting activation”| You see | Fix |
|---|---|
That license key isn't valid. |
Copy the key again from the email, with no spaces or missing characters |
| An activation-limit message | The key is active on another PC. Since 1.3.16 VirtualZones offers to move it to this computer; click Yes. See Move a license |
This license key isn't for VirtualZones. |
The key is for a different product. Contact support with your order email |
Couldn't reach the license server (…) |
Check your internet connection, proxy or firewall. api.lemonsqueezy.com must be reachable over HTTPS |
Still stuck? See Support.
Where the license is stored
Section titled “Where the license is stored”In %APPDATA%\VirtualZones\license.dat, encrypted with Windows DPAPI to your user account on this PC. Copying it to another computer won’t work: use Deactivate and activate there instead.