vmware question

[C M Reinehr]

On Friday 06 July 2007 08:02, vu pham 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.
>
> Oh yes, I forgot about the VMware environement is different from the
> real one.
>
> Thanks, James.
>
> Vu

I think the answer to that is to set up an alternate hardware profile that you 
can choose when booting. (I leave it as an exercise to the student to figure 
out how to do that! ;-)

cmr

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