What type of license would work on Azure DevOps Microsoft Hosted Agents?

[sohamM97]

We have a Pyarmor Basic license which works with pyarmor 8.5. But we have been facing issues trying to make it work with pyarmor 9, detailed here: #2329
Since we have not been able to find direct documentation links addressing our specific issues, I assume our current license won't work with pyarmor 9. So, we are considering buying a new license. But we're a bit confused as to whether we need a Pro license or a CI license.

The thing is, we mainly use our license in Azure DevOps Microsoft-hosted agents.

As per documentation: CI license doesn't work in the runner which has its own disk. If the runner is not docker container, use Pro license instead.
Per my knowledge, Microsoft-hosted agents run on VM's (unless you explicitly specify you want to run on containers), which would have their own disk. According to that, I assume we need a Pro license. Could you please verify if my understanding is correct.

[jondy]

Check this section
https://pyarmor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how-to/register.html#check-device-for-group-license

If this VM's machine id is changed, it need CI license. If it's stable, Pro License is OK, but you need make sure machine id is fixed in each run.

[sohamM97]

Thanks for the response. It turns out the machine ID changes each run, so will probably need to buy a CI license.

Two questions:

1. Turns out Microsoft-hosted agents do have their disk space. Hope that won't cause an issue when using CI license.
2. As mentioned in our original issue, when trying to request CI file from our existing license using pyarmor reg -C pyarmor-regfile-xxxx.zip, we are getting this issue:

INFO Python 3.14.2
INFO Pyarmor 9.2.0 (basic), 00XXXX, XXXXX
INFO Platform linux.x86_64
INFO request ci regfile (v2) by "/home/XXXXX/Downloads/pyarmor-regfile-XXXX.zip"
ERROR missing reg.info in regfile, this license may be out of date, please check Pyarmor upgrade notes
ERROR can not request CI license

Our license was bought in 2021, originally for pyarmor 7. Does that mean we won't be able to request CI license from our existing license?

[jondy]

About upgrading issue, refer to
https://pyarmor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how-to/register.html#what-need-to-do-after-upgrading-pyarmor

And https://pyarmor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/licenses.html#how-to-upgrade-pyarmor-licenses

Just as the doc, In short, if it could be upgraded successfully by the guide in the documentation, it’s OK. If something is wrong, this license can’t be upgraded. Pyarmor Team doesn’t handle this kind of request, there may be no any reply.

[sohamM97]

Noted, then we will have to buy a new CI license. Hope that Microsoft hosted agents having their own disk space won't cause an issue.