Dual Boot 14.04 and 8.1

[Bob Jonkman]

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Cranky wrote:
> he won't be able to use his Windows license in the VM.

A Windows OEM license (the one that came with the computer) almost
certainly is not valid for a Virtual Machine.  That's a legal
restriction, not a technical one.  In fact, there may be language even
in the Commercial-Off-The-Shelf license that restricts you from
installing it on a VM.

And if you have restore media chances are that you won't be able to
apply that on a VM either. That's a technical restriction, imposed by
MS to enforce their legal restriction. F'rinstance, I tried to install
Win7 OEM for my HP ProBook on a VirtualBox VM, and although I could
run the setup (over 2 hours of setup!), Win7 wouldn't actually boot in
the VM.

I did have some luck using the SysInternals command Disk2VHD.exe
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

James Kelsh demonstrated this at a KWLUG meeting some months ago, and
I was skeptical when I saw it. I thought that since the install from
DVD wouldn't work on my laptop, I'd be doomed to dual-boot forever.
But Disk2VHD worked like a charm!  Don't know if it works on EFI based
partitions, or if it works with Win8, or secure boot.

- --Bob.


On 14-05-08 04:47 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> Normally I'd agree, Doug, but if we want Linux to be the primary 
> (base) OS instead of Windows, and the laptop ships with Windows 
> installed, and if William wipes the HDD then installs Linux, then 
> builds a Virtual box Windows 8.1 guest, there is a possibility
> that he won't be able to use his Windows license in the VM.  I've
> heard of cases of this happening.  Sorry for the run-on sentence!
> 
> If William a few spare 8.1 licenses lying around (say from before 
> they closed TechNet) then he should be ok to build a 8.1 VM.
> 
> But if he wants to leave Windows as the host OS, then install
> Linux into a VM, that should work fine.  But who wants that?  lol
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> On 8 May 2014 16:40, Doug Penner <darwinsurvivor at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> VirtualBox with USB passthrough could also be a viable solution.
>> On 14-05-08 13:05 CrankyOldBugger wrote: Would Wine work instead
>> of dual-boot?
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>> On 8 May 2014 15:56, William Frick <frickwg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Haven't riun windows on my machines since 6.04 but a 3dscanner i 
>> funded is coming with windoze software first, then OSX and linux 
>> when they get to it.....
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>> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:07 PM, CrankyOldBugger < 
>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Have the UEFI turned on before you start the install.  Ubuntu 
>> notices if it's on or off, then installs accordingly.  Windows
>> will want it on anyway, so probably best to set both OS to use 
>> UEFI/Secure Boot.
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>> At least, that's been my experience with 13.04.  By 13.10 I was 
>> running Ubuntu by itself, no more Windows.
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>> On 8 May 2014 14:47, William Frick <frickwg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Just got my HP Sleekbook and want to dual boot to 14.04...... Is 
>> there any thing I should be watching out for in the install ?
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