Licence not getting applied when launching Server as launch daemon

Submitted by rahul19 on #1

Hi,

 

We brought a Licence and had setup it on a Mac Mini. There are times where the machine requires a restart so we need to Configure Virtual here Server settings as a daemon.

Using the following Command.

sudo /Applications/VirtualHereServerUniversal.app/Contents/MacOS/vhusbdosx -b

service is registered without error but on the client while connecting to USB we see a error message

"When Running the Client as service you can only connect to Purchased Servers"

We have tried re-adding the licence back but not getting set this is the error in vhusbd.logfile

grep -i "licensed\|using configuration" /var/log/vhusbd.log | tail -5

Thu Oct 15 10:05:35 2026 LOG_INFO    Server licensed to=unlicensed max_devices=1

Thu Oct 15 10:38:33 2026 LOG_INFO    Using configuration /Library/vhusbd.ini

Thu Oct 15 10:38:33 2026 LOG_INFO    Server licensed to=unlicensed max_devices=1

 

Issue is seen only when registering as a daemon works fine when we are using it Via GUI.

Could you please let us know what we are missing here?

Submitted by Michael on Thu, 2026/10/15 - 18:42

#2

Its will store the license key in /Library/vhusbd.ini  . Does it show it in there?

 

Submitted by rahul19 on Fri, 2026/10/16 - 02:21

#3

Hey Michael

 Licence Information is seen in ini file

but when i use the client to connect to the server i see a pop of Invalid licence.

Submitted by Michael on Fri, 2026/10/16 - 07:48

#4

OK run the virtualhere server in daemon mode and run the virtualhere client elsewhere. Then when you see the Virtualhere MacOS Server listed in the client, right click USB Servers->License...->Copy to clipboard and paste into an email to me mail [at] virtualhere.com (mail[at]virtualhere[dot]com) and ill check...