VirtualBox

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/05/2014 11:38 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> 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
>

Peter,

I was wondering about that possibility.  When you say "blew away" do you 
mean they erased it or just somehow rendered it inoperable?

Were you ever able to resolve the issue?

Regards,  Jim