IIRC running XP inside a VM is illegal by definition (the license doesn't allow it), no-one ever cared.
By now XP is not being sold at all, during win 7 sales you could purchase windows 7 professional with a downgrade option to windows XP through enterprise channels, I don't think that exists for windows 8 since MS intends to cease support in 2014 and a lot of the hardware in modern computers is simply not supported under XP.... That said the XP license structure did sort of tolerate transferring the OEM license from one computer to another as long as there was no more than one computer running with the license (MS officially didn't like it, but it was tolerated or maybe they were even told by court to put up with it). If you own an XP license that came with some computer and you still have an in-tact license sticker I don't think anyone is going to make a big deal out of you using it on a vm as long as the original machine is decommissioned/reinstalled with an "other os"(r). Regardless of what install disk you already have you should get yourself an as patched as possible ISO (ie. SP3 + patches if possible), iirc you can do this with a tool called nlite (it allows you take an install disk an 'slipstream' servicepacks & patches into it to create a new burnable iso of fully patched windows). Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/2/8 vordoo <vor...@yahoo.com> > > On 2013-02-08 01:19, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I do not know about buying XP, I believe that it is only still available > for some corporate clients, not individuals. I think that there is a way to > migrate an existing installation to a virtual machine, which may be a way > to use your cd. https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51203 > > As it appears, the problem is, he has no existing installation to migrate > from. At least not legally. > :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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