Hello everyone, I'm new to the list. I've used VMWare on the desktop, and everything I read admonishes you to make sure you have separate licenses for every virtual instance of a Microsoft operating system. The "experiment" we did was Windows XP Pro with three virtual instances under it, Windows 98 SE, Windows 95, and Windows 3.1, all with full licenses.
In those instances where you need to "register" an OS and you attempted to run a second copy of it, the second registration will fail, and would go into a reduced run mode. This would be true of Windows XP and newer, since they must be registered to continue in full run mode. -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shimon Lebowitz Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:57 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM - Lightweight specific purpose file system >Why would the Microsoft Licensing be "tricky"? >Expensive perhaps as you need >one license per virtual machine, but not tricky... Is this really true??? One per *virtual*, not *real*, machine? If I were two run two copies of Windows on *one* PC, using e.g. VM-Ware, I would be required to pay twice??? Just wondering, and surprised, Shimon
