Failed attempt to virtually install Win7 inside Kubuntu 10.04 @ my Asus Eee PC 1001HA.

[Bas Roufs]

2010/11/9 Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com>

> On 9 November 2010 14:27, Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Today, I have tried to virtually install Kubuntu 10.04 inside a Kubuntu
> > 10.04 environment - via "Virtual Box",....
>
> You are not alone with this issue, there's a thread on the VBox forums
> about it too:-
>
> http://forum.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=25116
>
> However the issue is (I believe) because you have a Win7 _recovery_
> DVD not an _install_ DVD. Recovery CDs/DVDs/images are designed (read:
> restricted) to be used on a specific hardware device, and not on a
> different computer.....
>

Thanks for this info, it's clear. Even when using exactly the same laptop
with which the "recovery" CD came, a virtual environment inside another OS
is a "different computer"... This is apparently one of the ways Micro$oft
tries to maintain  it's oligopoly.
For the time being I keep using the dual boot solution that is available at
this machine, along with "Wine" at this partition, until I find a more
practical solution. Unlike the colleague at the the Virtual Box forum, I did
maintain a shrinked version of the Win7partition at this laptop. However it
may be, no need for me to continue this thread.

Respectfully yours,

Bas.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20101109/50aa5603/attachment.html>