vmware question

[Jerry McBride]

On Friday 06 July 2007 06:29:34 am James McDonald wrote:
> 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.
>

Yeah... but if you're not corporate... who would spend that kind of money on a 
monkey OS?

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