Virtual machines

[Ken Moffat]

I live near Seattle, so can help with the fantasy. ;-)


On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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Ken Moffat
kmoffat at modizzle dot net
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