VMware + WindowsXP guest + license?

Tomoki Taniguchi tomoki.taniguchi at gmail.com
Mon May 7 09:09:34 UTC 2007


Do you still need a new license even if I make the laptop completely linux
and the only copy of windows i will be running is under VMware?

On 5/7/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Albert Charron wrote:
> > Sadly, you can't use an OEM licences (licence that came with a computer)
> > anywhere else than on the PC it came with (As for Windows, it's
> > installed in a second computer when installed in VMWare).
>
> Right.  OEM licenses are only valid for direct installation on hardware.
>  You would need to buy a separate license to install inside the VM.
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
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