# vlmcsd - portable open-source KMS Emulator in C  
**vlmcsd-1112-2018-10-20**  

|Supported operating systems| Linux, GNU/Linux, uclibc/Linux, musl/Linux, Android (bionic/Linux), FreeBSD, FreeBSD with glibc (e.g. debian/kFreeBSD), OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD, Solaris, Open Indiana, Dyson, Minix, Darwin, Mac OS, iOS, Windows, Cygwin, WSL, Wine, The Hurd. |
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Supported CPUs|x86，arm, mips, PowerPC, Sparc, s390
Number of binaries included in distribution|163
Number of explicitly supported products to activate|202
[Binaries][1]
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**vlmcsd is**   

- a replacement for Microsoft's KMS server It contains vlmcs a KMS test client, mainly for debugging purposes, that also can "charge" a genuine KMS server designed to run on an always-on or often-on device,e.g. router, NAS Box, ... intended to help people who lost activation of their legally-owned licenses, e.g. due to a change of hardware (motherboard, CPU, ...)  

**vlmcsd is not**

 - a one-click activation or crack tool intended to activate illegal copies of software (Windows, Office, Project, Visio)  

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### To view the documentation cd to the directory containing the distribution  
**files and type**  

 - man man/vlmcsd.8  
	to see documentation for vlmcsd  

 - man man/vlmcs.1  
	to see documentation for vlmcs  

 - man man/vlmcsd.7  
	to see general documentation for kms  

If you don't have man, you may also use the .txt, .html and .pdf files in the man directory. 

> This is a copy from the mydigitallife forum.  
> https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/emulated-kms-servers-on-non-windows-platforms.50234/

  [1]: https://github.com/lixuy/vlmcsd/tree/master/binaries "binaries"