Virtual machines

[Michael Hipp]

James McDonald wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
>> Having tried Virtualbox on Vista to run Ubuntu, I wonder if there is a 
>> virtual machine for linux that would allow running an existing windows 
>> install. Start it on linux, point it at, say, sda1 which might be a 
>> windows partition, avoiding having to reinstall or violate the windows 
>> licensing.
>>
> I've use VMWare workstation in Linux and pointed it to run a windows 
> partition. However the hardware changes significantly enough that it 
> prompts for license re-activation.

Ah yes, I hadn't thought about that. I was running it with W2k which isn't 
nearly as fascist about licenses. Worst case you might have to call their 
stupid phone number and tell them 3 times that you've only installed it on one 
system to get it reactivated. A pain, but it provides good fantasy material 
about flying to Seattle and choking the living daylights out of some stranger. :-)

Michael