Windows Maya Install

Windows maya installations are generally quite straightforwards. This page documents exceptions, or special needs installations.

Virtualized Maya Install

Running Maya in a VirtualMachine is very useful because you can quickly revert it to a fresh maya install.

A few important notes about the setup:

Maya License is VM-specific

Maya Licensing is specific to the VM. (at least for maya versions above maya2016). Even when keeping the same Mac Address, network interface, and hostname the license fails when the VM is used on a different host machine.

Instead, install maya into the VM without licensing it before export it to .oav. On import, create a snapshot of the VM before and after licensing maya. This way you can trivially revert to either state, without requiring a lot of disk space to be occupied.