vmware question

[James McDonald]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Depending on what licensing agreement you have with microsoft you don't 
have to do the 'register' your copy with M$ thing.

I have corporate install media which has one key fits all and no 
activation prompt when you image a machine.