On 17 Sep 2010 at 7:50, Miller Bonnie L. wrote: > I bought a new W7 Pro laptop at home a while back, getting pro mainly > for the XP mode. I used disk2vhd to create a vhd file from my old XP laptop > (that I´ve wiped), copied it over, and thought I could replace the default > .vhd in XP mode. But, after it just wouldn´t work, some googling seemed to > indicate that there is something special about the basic XP-mode freshly > installed .vhd provided via the download, and that you HAVE to start clean > from that, for anything you want to run or deploy-hence the > licensing/activation issues. I also read something that you are only legal > to run the clean-installed vhd as the "free" copy of XP, anything else and > you have to license.
I wonder what the license issues are WRT to running that VHD in a different VM environment like VirtualBox. You own the original license for XP, but if it was an OEM license I suppose the license doesn't transfer with the VHD. IMHO this is probably a case where MS wouldn't care to open the can of worms of licensing -- their special virtual XP vs your old XP license, you *have* a license to run XP under W7. I'll bet a jury would decide to throw MS out of court on that one ;-) -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
