vmware question

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007, 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.

Life is much more difficult for hardware vendors these days as M$
has built-in all their DRM junk to keep another rapacious
monopoly happy, the RIAA.

	http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

On the bright side, M$ Vista and their new Office may actually
get people to look for other alternatives, in particular the UI
changes in Office, and the inability to customize Office as
people have been doing for years.

Compared to Vista, XP looks good :-).

...
Bill
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