Installation & Licensing

[#1]

I've tried to install ACAD 2012 onto an XP PRo virtual drive on a new Windows 7 machine.  It says that everything has been installed but there is no ACAD.exe file to actually start it.  Has anyone installed it successfully like this?

[#2]

Virual machines are not supported to Run Autocad.

But Installation should have worked fine. please look at the installation logs in %temp% folder to see if there are any issues.

OR

please try to install the software in diagnostics mode as described here

http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS75218

If the issue persisits, please post the all the log files from the %temp% folder (start->run/search->type %temp% ->Enter) as a zip file.

[#3]

Can the AutoCAD 2012 license be activated/repaired inside a virtual machine? I want to develop applications for AutoCAD using Visual Studio C#. 

I tried to use Visual Studio in the past but it messed up a CNC software package (Router-CIM) that I use everyday. So I wanted to have a development virtual machine with AutoCAD and Visual Studio running on it. Would I need an extra license?

[#4]

Technically yes, again not supported environment.

License it depends how it would be used. if you can use it as second activation then yes

please check it here

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=3970195

5th point