VirtualBox

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 05/08/14 15:15, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> On 08/05/2014 06:40 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
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> I have a dual boot setup now, Win7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on separate hard 
> drives.  About the only thing I use Win7 for is to run Turbo Tax. It 
> really would be more convenient to run it in VBox. I don't have an 
> installation disk because Win7 came installed on the machine.
> 
> I've googled this in the past and found several sets of complex and 
> sometime conflicting instructions.  If someone who has successfully 
> put an installed copy of Win7 in VBox would point me at the 
> instructions they used, I would appreciate it.

A word to the wise. I had a legitimate copy of Win7 (including an
installation DVD, demanded as a condition of sale) pre-installed on my
m/c, but after switching to Linux, deleting Win7 and creating a VM with
VirtualBox, I had several, severe problems. At some stage Microsoft had
tied the original Win7 installation to the hardware and declared that
the VM - on the same hardware base - was an illegal copy and blew away
the installation.

Regards Peter HB