Symptoms

Customer use an ASR file as an "emergency" license when license server goes down. When customer calls API flxActCommonLicSpcAddASRs() to add the ASR to the trusted storage it returns error LM_TS_VIRTUALIZATION_POLICY_ MISMATCH with error code 50050 when it's running on an Virtualized environment. 

Diagnosis

If we set the "Virtualization Keyword" setting to "Default", this populate VIRTUALIZATION_POLICY value as PHYSICAL in the corresponding ASR file, which will not be allowed by virtual machines to get added and returns error. Below is sample content of ASR file, with Virtualization Keyword Set to "Default"

<Key>VIRTUALIZATION_POLICY</Key>
<Value>PHYSICAL</Value>

Solution

In Flexnet operations go to the required ASR present under

Administer-->FlexNet Publisher--> Local Trial ASR.

Check if the ASR you are trying to activate have "Virtualization Keyword" in the policy for the activation set to "Default".
In order to resolve this issue, either of the following two setting can help.

1. Set "Virtualization Keyword" to "Virtual"

Corresponding generated ASR file -> <Key>VIRTUALIZATION_POLICY</Key><Value>VM_ONLY</Value>

2. Set "Virtualization Keyword" to "Omitted"
This will not add any VIRTUALIZATION_POLICY entry in ASR file, which will allow ASR to be added to both physical and virtual PC.