Rockwell CodeMeter Activation Not Valid

[Paglia]

I activated the Studio 5000 license with the CodeMeter on a virtual machine.
Unfortunately with the subscription license I was unable to create the *.LIC license file.

After a few months I restarted the virtual machine and the license was invalid.

Can anyone tell me what I could have done to deactivate the license?

Surely I changed the serial number of the hard disk of the virtual machine but I put it back the same as it was originally.
My PC has two Hard Drives and I may have moved the Virtual Machine to the other Hard Drives.

What should I avoid doing to avoid deactivating the license again?

Thank You very much...

 

[JBooth]

Flexera is the activation that creates .LIC files. CodeMeter does not create an independent license file, they are all housed in containers. I have my CodeMeter containers/licenses on a dongle (9509-CMSTICKC), and connect that usb device to virtual machine when i power it on. When i loaded the activation in FT Activation Manager, bound it to the dongle. I think you can also put the license on your host machine, and and set FT Activation Manager on host as a network server, then point the VM FT Activation Manager at it, but i have not done it, so not sure of the specifics.