@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ to specify applications that are not listed with \fB-x\fR. The
option is used as a shortcut for the most common applications.
.IP"\fB-K\fR \fIprotocol-version\fR"
Force a specific version of the KMS protocol. Valid versions are 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0. The default is to select a suitable version according to the \fIapplication\fR selected. You may use \fB-K\fR to send an incorrect protocol version to the KMS server and see how it behaves. Genuine KMS servers return HRESULT 0x8007000D if the KMS protocol is not 4.0, 5.0 or 6.0. Emulators should do the same. When sending a request with an incorrect protocol number, vlmcs ignores the minor protocol number (e.g. sends a v4 request for version 4.1). If the major version number is less then 4, it sends a v4 request. If the major version is greater then 6, is sends a v6 request. In any case the \fIprotocol-version\fR as specified by \fB-K\fR is put in the version fields of the request.
Force a specific version of the KMS protocol. Valid versions are 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0. The default is to select a suitable version according to the \fIapplication\fR selected. You may use \fB-K\fR to send an incorrect protocol version to the KMS server and see how it behaves. Genuine KMS servers return HRESULT 0x8007000D if the KMS protocol is not 4.0, 5.0 or 6.0. Emulators should do the same. When sending a request with an incorrect protocol number, vlmcs ignores the minor protocol number (e.g. sends a v4 request for version 4.1). If the major version number is less then 4, it sends a v4 request. If the major version is greater then 6, it sends a v6 request. In any case the \fIprotocol-version\fR as specified by \fB-K\fR is put in the version fields of the request.
.IP"\fB-4\fR, \fB-5\fR and \fB-6"
Force version 4, 5 or 6 of the KMS protocol. These options are actually shortcuts of \fB-K 4.0\fR, \fB-K 5.0\fR and \fB-K 6.0\fR.
@ -184,6 +184,25 @@ for a list of valid \fILCID\fRs. Please note that some of them are not recognize
Most other KMS emulators use a fixed \fILCID\fR of 1033 (English - US). To achive the same behavior in vlmcsd use \fB-C 1033\fR.
.IP"\fB-K0\fR, \fB-K1\fR, \fB-K2\fR and \fB-K3\fR"
Sets the whitelisting level to determine which products vlmcsd activates or refuses. The default is \fB-K0\fR.
.RS12
\fB-K0\fR: activate all products with an unknown, retail or beta/preview KMS ID.
.br
\fB-K1\fR: activate products with a retail or beta/preview KMS ID but refuse to activate products with an unknown KMS ID.
.br
\fB-K2\fR: activate products with an unknown KMS ID but refuse products with a retail or beta/preview KMS ID.
.br
\fB-K3\fR: activate only products with a known volume license RTM KMS ID and refuse all others.
.RE
.IP""
The SKU ID is not checked. Like a genuine KMS server vlmcsd activates a product that has a random or unknown SKU ID. If you select \fB-K1\fR or \fB-K3\fR, vlmcsd also checks the Application ID for correctness. If Microsoft introduces a new KMS ID for a new product, you cannot activate it if you used \fB-K1\fR or \fB-K3\fR until a new version of vlmcsd is available.
.IP"\fB-c0\fR and \fB-c1\fR"
\fB-c1\fR causes vlmcsd to check if the client time differs no more than four hours from the system time. \fB-c0\fR (the default) disables this check. \fB-c1\fR is useful to prevent emulator detection. A client that tries to detect an emulator could simply send two subsequent request with two time stamps that differ more than four hours from each other. If both requests succeed, the server is an emulator. If you specify \fB-c1\fR on a system with no reliable time source, activations will fail. It is ok to set the correct system time after you started vlmcsd.
.IP"\fB-R\fR \fIrenewal-interval\fR"
Instructs clients to renew activation every \fIrenewal-interval\fR. The \fIrenewal-interval\fR is a number optionally immediately followed by a letter indicating the unit. Valid unit letters are s (seconds), m (minutes), h (hours), d (days) and w (weeks). If you do not specify a letter, minutes is assumed.
@ -274,8 +293,6 @@ Installs \fBvlmcsd\fR as a Windows service with low privileges and logs everythi
An ePID specified in an ini file must not contain spaces.
.SHINTENTIONALBUGS
vlmcsd activates non-VL (retail) and beta/preview versions of Windows.
.br
vlmcsd always reports enough active clients to satisfy the N count policy of the request.
@ -99,6 +99,25 @@ Can be TRUE or FALSE. The default is TRUE. If set to FALSE, logging output does
.IP"\fBLogVerbose\fR"
Set this to either TRUE or FALSE. The default is FALSE. If set to TRUE, more details of each activation will be logged. You use \fB-v\fR and \fB-q\fR in the command line to control this setting. \fBLogVerbose\fR has an effect only if you specify a log file or redirect logging to \fBstdout\fR(3).
.IP"\fBWhitelistingLevel\fR"
Can be 0, 1, 2 or 3. The default is 0. Sets the whitelisting level to determine which products vlmcsd activates or refuses.
.RS12
\fB0\fR: activate all products with an unknown, retail or beta/preview KMS ID.
.br
\fB1\fR: activate products with a retail or beta/preview KMS ID but refuse to activate products with an unknown KMS ID.
.br
\fB2\fR: activate products with an unknown KMS ID but refuse products with a retail or beta/preview KMS ID.
.br
\fB3\fR: activate only products with a known volume license RTM KMS ID and refuse all others.
.RE
.IP""
The SKU ID is not checked. Like a genuine KMS server vlmcsd activates a product that has a random or unknown SKU ID. If you select \fB1\fR or \fB3\fR, vlmcsd also checks the Application ID for correctness. If Microsoft introduces a new KMS ID for a new product, you cannot activate it if you used \fB1\fR or \fB3\fR until a new version of vlmcsd is available.
.IP"\fBCheckClientTime\fR"
Can be TRUE or FALSE. The default is FALSE. If you set this to TRUE \fBvlmcsd\fR(8) checks if the client time differs no more than four hours from the system time. This is useful to prevent emulator detection. A client that tries to detect an emulator could simply send two subsequent request with two time stamps that differ more than four hours from each other. If both requests succeed, the server is an emulator. If you set this to TRUE on a system with no reliable time source, activations will fail. It is ok to set the correct system time after you started \fBvlmcsd\fR(8).
.IP"\fBActivationInterval\fR"
This is the same as specifying \fB-A\fR on the command line. See \fBvlmcsd\fR(8) for details. The default is 2 hours. Example: ActivationInterval = 1h