VM Workstation and Hardware Based Licensing

Hi,

I recently installed VMWare Workstation 10 on a PC.  My plan was to run software that requires hardware based licensing.  To activate the software you provide a 'PC ID' specified by the software and the developer sends a license key.  This works perfectly on the physical machine.

However, on the virtual machine I noticed that everytime the software is opened and closed (actually every time the license screen is opened or closed) the 'PC ID' changes.  I am not sure where the PC ID is taken from however it looks something like this:

0521335B3F43095D251F205B4B424B166C724853085C1F7A66081A12091E22100120246023017A7A585A517517483C215B28490B5466270A095A041E5412715F226754017979471C0858135069725E54105105F

Is there a way I can fix this 'PC ID' if I find out what hardware resource is mapped to.  For instanced if it's mapped to the CPU or a HDD can I set this in a configuration file.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thank You.