VirtualBox

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 05/08/14 22:38, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> 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:
>> [cut]
>>
>>>
>>> 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?

Hello Jim,

I meant the latter. They just rendered it un-usable and issued "this is
an illegal copy..." messages on every boot.

As some registration data is held somewhere within Microsoft, for how
long I know not, every attempt at re-installation eventually fails in
the same way. Maybe I'll try again one day:-)

Peter HB