VirtualBox

[Liam Proven]

On 5 August 2014 18:38, Peter Hillier-Brook <phb at hbsys.plus.com> wrote:
> 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.


That's normal. The VM is a separate, different, *virtual* machine. As
far as MS is concerned, you've installed a single copy on 2 different
machines, which you're not allowed to.

If you contacted them and asked for the old one to be removed, that
should have worked.

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