On 27 October 2012 16:41, John A. Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > I had assumed that cloning an instance of Windows in a VM would clone all of > the system configurations and settings including the one indicating that > Windows had been activated. However, when I created a clone of a Windows > Vista Ultimate, the cloned version showed that it was not yet activated even > though the original indicates that it had been activated already (and I > double checked that setting too in the original).
The clone is not 100% identical to the original. The VirtualBox VM has a new GUID assigned. The copied virtual hard disks have new GUIDs assigned. The cloned network cards have new MAC addresses assigned. All of the above are (by default) surfaced into the VM as motherboard serial numbers, HDD serial numbers, network card MAC addresses, etc., and Windows can see that they have changed : => new hardware, and Windows becomes deactivated. Some or all of the above can be 'fixed' (made constant) by using VBoxManage to set various VM config settings. -- Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINDOWS 8 is here. Millions of people. Your app in 30 days. Visit The Windows 8 Center at Sourceforge for all your go to resources. http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ join-generation-app-and-make-money-coding-fast/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
