Guest Al Dykes Posted September 29, 2008 Posted September 29, 2008 What is the deal with running XP under VM legally. If I buy a copy of XP/Pro (EOM) as part of a complete system, can I run it under VM if I install Linux or Vista as a host OS? Would getting a legal XP/Pro Retail make any difference? -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
Guest Mick Murphy Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 RE: VISTA, XP and Virtual Machines?? One licence, one install. If you have the OS installed on your computer, you need another licence to install that same OS on a VM on that computer, or another computer. -- Mad Mike "Al Dykes" wrote: > What is the deal with running XP under VM legally. If I buy a copy of > XP/Pro (EOM) as part of a complete system, can I run it under VM if I > install Linux or Vista as a host OS? > > Would getting a legal XP/Pro Retail make any difference? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Al Dykes > News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. > - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail > >
Guest Gilgamesh Posted October 5, 2008 Posted October 5, 2008 Re: VISTA, XP and Virtual Machines?? "Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:712C9956-03BE-49F9-99B8-33106C4C0803@microsoft.com... > One licence, one install. > If you have the OS installed on your computer, you need another licence to > install that same OS on a VM on that computer, or another computer. Actually the Vista licence agreement says One Licence - One Device. Though it does expresly forbid using the licence in a virtualised environment (at lease Vista Home Premium which is my licence) Given this exclusion if you were to buy a second licence would you actually be able to install it? :-) (I wanted to install it today and found this little clause) Through a set of twisted arguments you could argue that a VPC is different to the real PC which is what MS does to justify ripping you off for a second licence. However if you have a second HD installed on your PC you could install it on a partition there as well as the core install on the other desk - Then use the PCs BIOS to go into a boot menu and choose which one you want. There is no virtualisation involved and it is still the One PC Device. > > -- > Mad Mike > > > "Al Dykes" wrote: > >> What is the deal with running XP under VM legally. If I buy a copy of >> XP/Pro (EOM) as part of a complete system, can I run it under VM if I >> install Linux or Vista as a host OS? >> >> Would getting a legal XP/Pro Retail make any difference? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Al Dykes >> News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is >> advertising. >> - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail >> >>
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