Hi There,
Firstly, I love the renderer! You chaps came to visit us at River Film in London a few months back and we've been using it in a number of productions already; We'll be ready to show off a few soon!
However, my problem stems from Corona Alpha 7's licensing. It's all very simple and easy on our workstations, but we have a render farm in the cloud using Amazon's EC2 platform. The problem I have is that the render nodes that we boot up in the cloud there cannot access the internet. When I launched one in order to install Corona (and then create an "image" of that machine to launch again later) I was able to install it by using the activation website - it all worked fine. However, when I boot other machines, they take a job from Back Burner but then sit there with the license activation screen up (with the request code showing). Obviously they get no further than this.
Now I assume the problem stems from the fact that all the machines have different names, different MAC addresses or any number of "unique" machine numbers that can be used to tie a license to a machine. But is there any way to avoid this? At the moment it's really stopping us from being able to use it in this production as it's very render-heavy and we can't rely on our local farm alone.
Thanks,
Dan
