VirtualBox

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 06/08/14 11:46, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.

That would be a good trick. ;-) Why would you think I haven't tried?


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