I own a mac and therefore I have windows loaded on a separate partition on my hard drive. There are two ways to access that windows partition from a Mac. The first is called Bootcamping where I press the the option button when the computer starts up and there are two popups that appear asking me which OS I prefer…OSX or Windows. The other way, I access the windows partition is through a software called Parallels that I can initiate while in the Mac environment. Each method has its pros and cons. For example, when using Parallels, I can have the windows environment and the mac environment available side by side. The downside is that I have to split the RAM between the two environments. Bootcamp on the other hand enables me to use all of my RAM for my trading but I only have one environment available. The point is that I use both methods of accessing my windows environment depending on what I am doing (trading vs back testing).
Anyway here is the problem…When I access my windows environment using these two different methods, I get TWO DIFFERENT MACHINE IDs for my NT8. In addition, when I access windows by one method and then I go to access windows by the other method, a popup appears when I start up NT8 that says I need to reapply my NT8 license and my connection settings to NT. So obviously NT thinks it is a different computer when it is really the same computer. I emailed Ninja about it and they said to call Microsoft as Microsoft assigns the machine IDs. We all know whats going to happen when I call Microsoft and ask them about NinjaTrader. They are not going to be helpful. I was really disappointed in Ninja and their lack of support here. I cannot be the only Mac user who trades with NinjaTrader.
Does anyone who owns a Mac know how to solve this issue without calling the software vendor and asking for more licenses? Is there a way to maintain a single machine ID while accessing the windows environment by these two methods.
Thanks,
Steven Perry
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