vmware question

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 17:20 +1000, James McDonald wrote:
> vu pham wrote:
> > My home PC has Suse 10.2 and Vista, each on a separate sata drive.
> > Can I use VMWare in SuSe to load that already-installed Vista  without
> > reinstalling it from inside VMware ?
> >
> >   
> Yes but the Vista install will redetect all your hardware (VMWARE stuff) 
> and prompt you to revalidate your license. Then when you boot back into 
> the Vista install straight from a boot prompt you will have to 
> revalidate your license again.
> 
> I love the Freedom of Windows.

Ahh. I hadn't considered that. I wonder how that will be dealt with in
the Novel / MS agreement to make this sort of thing easier. I bet it
will require an MS-OS install only for the virtual machine.

hijack in progress:

Skipping VMs, I wonder how hardware vendors test all their various bits
in MS these days. Especially those with many items. Things like testing
driver loads/unloads and proper hardware detection. This usually
involves cards being added/removed/changed.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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