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					<div>Last Review: Jun,1 2009</div>
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						<td>Daria Taranova</td>
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					<h2>Resolution</h2>
					1. Run <strong>TextEdit</strong> (or any other text editor you prefer), click on <strong>File</strong> -&gt; <strong>Open</strong>,<br /><br />2. Browse to <strong>the root of your Mac disk</strong> -&gt; <strong>Library</strong> -&gt; <strong>Preferences</strong> -&gt; <strong>Parallels</strong> folder,<br /><br />3. Select <strong>dispatcher.xml</strong> file to open in editor,<br /><br />4. The license and owner details are enclosed in <strong>&lt;License&gt;</strong> tag in the beginning of the dispatcher.xml file, for example:<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<span style='font-family: courier new,courier;font-size: 12px;'>&nbsp; &lt;License&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;Key&gt;<strong>AAAAAA-BBBBBB-CCCCCC-DDDDDD-EEEEEE</strong>&lt;/Key&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;User&gt;<strong>Your Name</strong>&lt;/User&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;Company&gt;<strong>Your Company Name</strong>&lt;/Company&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/License&gt;</span><br /><br />in the above example, <strong>AAAAAA-BBBBBB-CCCCCC-DDDDDD-EEEEEE</strong> is license (activation key) installed on your Parallels Server.<br /><br />Alternatively you can retrieve the License (activation) key using<br />&nbsp;command line:<br />&nbsp;1) start Terminal<br />&nbsp;2) paste the following command:<br />&nbsp; grep -A4 '&lt;License&gt;' /Library/Preferences/Parallels/dispatcher.xml<br /><br />&nbsp;3) find the license <strong>AAAAAA-BBBBBB-CCCCCC-DDDDDD-EEEEEE</strong> in the terminal<br />&nbsp;output similar to this example:<br /><br />macserver1:~ root# grep -A4 '&lt;License&gt;' /Library/Preferences/Parallels/dispatcher.xml<br />&nbsp; &lt;License&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;Key&gt;<strong>AAAAAA-BBBBBB-CCCCCC-DDDDDD-EEEEEE</strong>&lt;/Key&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;User&gt;<strong>Your Name</strong>&lt;/User&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;Company&gt;<strong>Your Company Name</strong>&lt;/Company&gt;<br />&nbsp; &lt;/License&gt;<br /><br /><br />5. Close dispatcher.xml file. Please do NOT do any manual changes in the file!
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