Sorry Sven, but how could you not think that this is illegal? You need a windows license per machine and your tip recommends installing the same license on multiple machine and ignoring the DRM harness that's there to remind dummies that something's wrong. The DRM mechanism is not the license, and a hole in it doesn't give a license to use the software. It's the fact that you paid for something is what gives you a license to run the software. That's what creates the legal contract.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Sven Constable <sixsi_l...@imagefront.de> wrote: > If its for a render farm you can install windows7 on as many machines you > like. You just need a working serial, eg. from one of the workstations > where you already bought a legal copy of windows for. It's a bit shady but > not illegal I think. You just don't activate it and it will not stop > working. After the grace period certain things stop working like windows > aero and the desktop background turns black and things like that to prevent > users to actually work with it conveniently. And it's not possible to > receive windows updates after that 30 days. But usually no one logs in on > render nodes (except remotely once in a while). Usually these machines have > no internet connection either. > > > > Making a sysprepped image of windows7 however is a bit more hassle than it > was with XP64 but it's possible to include everything in a sysprepped image > like windows key, language setting, timezone, workgroup etc. Even the > annoying thing that windows7 forces you to create an additional user at > first boot time can be skipped. So after you deployed the image on the > render nodes you only have to set the machine name once. > > > > Some infos here: > > http://smallbusiness.chron.com/happens-windows-not-activated-34196.html > > > > http://brianleejackson.com/sysprep-a-windows-7-machine-start-to-finish-v2/ > > > > > > sven > > >
