Good question! According to my attempts to get answers from Microsoft,
Apple and Freedom Scientific. The answer from Apple is simple. Anyone
attempting to run their Operating System on any hardware that is not from
Apple will be prosecuted! the response from the other two depend on who you
ask, and what day it is. Microsoft clearly requires anyone running Windows
in a Virtual Machine on a Mac or Linux platform must buy a separate license
for that installation. Microsoft used to be clear that a license was needed
for each virtual machine. This did not get much push back until lately when
Microsoft who now wants to sell virtualization to consumers. I
understandMicrosoft's view of licensing Virtual Machines on a computer
running the same OS, or even a version previously updated to the current
version has relaxed a bit. However, there are actually provisions in the
Windows 7 license that are very strict and make ffollowing official
Microsoft on screen instructions during installation illegal! For instance,
the way the licence is written, it is not legal to create a dual oot system
that can boot both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows 7! However,
any technical person at Microsoft will say it is perfectly legitimate.
Currently installing and authorizing JAWS in a Virtual Machine will use up
aa license key! Everyone I talked to at Freedom Scientific so far think
that would be acceptable. I have not pushed it yet to the point where I
needed to talk to a person to add more keys, so I do not know how they would
handle that. I have considered a dongle version of JAWS, which should
automatically authorize as many Virtual Machines as you like. Since I have
not tried this, I have no idea if this has issues like the host falling back
to demo mode if you spend too much time in the Virtual Machine with the USB
dongle attached.
It sure makes open solutions like Linux and NVDA look great, since these
issues go away!
Don Marang
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From: "Jacob Kruger" <jac...@mailzone.co.za>
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 3:30 PM
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] virtual machine
Along the lines of that, if I just wanted a clean, test instance of my
current operating system - does it count as a licence issue if I install
it on a virtual machine that runs within my normally used instance of the
same licenced installation?
In other words, while I would be making use of 2 copies of the same
licence, it would however be on the same physical machine.
Suppose it might actually cause validation issues if they were both online
at the same time as well.
Not too important/relevant as such, but just wondering.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Ventura" <frank.vent...@littlebreezes.com>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] virtual machine
A virtual machine is just that another machine. You will need to buy an
unused copy of the retail version of XP (try EBay) and install it into
a newly created virtual machine.
Frank Ventura
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com
[mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Kevin
Andrews
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:42 PM
To: blind-computing
Subject: [Blind-Computing] virtual machine
Hi,
I was wondering if it would be possible to obtain a Windows XP virtual
machine. I already have VMware player installed. I did some browsing on
the Internet, but it looks like I need to insert my Windows XP cd, which
I don't have Windows xp. Isn't the purpose of a vm is so you can run it
without a cd?
If anyone could direct to any links on the WEB where I may be able to
download a virtual machine, either Windows XP home or pro, that would be
much appreciated.
Thank you.
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