Yeah that's obvious, but we (operator) aren't legally qualified or allowed to touch this software or communications network. Only the OEM is allowed to use it.

Yeah that's obvious, but we (operator) aren't legally qualified or allowed to touch this software or communications network. Only the OEM is allowed to use it. So even if we had the VM, we would be legally not be able to use it. We rent the ability for an OEM technician to use the laptop when we send the technician to our site. An added irony is that the protocol is just serial comms over a standard rs232 port. But then on the other hand, you type the wrong thing and you can lose communication with a non trivial amount of a countries oil production (2,5%).