A long time ago VMware sold an appliance bundled with a Windows license. I don't know if that's still an option. I hope so, but haven't looked real hard. <div>On 5/6/07, Albert Charron <<a href="mailto:albert@albertcharron.name">albert@albertcharron.name</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Tomoki Taniguchi wrote: > I have a dual boot winxp/linux system. > > My windows partition has a valid license that came preinstalled with my laptop. > It has passed all license validation up to this point. > > I used the "VMware Converter" to create a copy of the "winxp environment". > > I then tried running the "image" in vmware player under linux. > The system starts up normally, but when I log in, > Windows tells me i need a valid license. > > My laptop doesn't come with a Windows install CD. > It came with a recovery DVD which contains an image of the > of a preinstalled harddrive to save time. > > How can i solve this issue? > > TIA, > Tomoki Taniguchi > > Sadly, you can't use an OEM licences (licence that came with a computer) anywhere else than on the PC it came with (As for Windows, it's installed in a second computer when installed in VMWare). You can't even upgrade your CPU or Motherboard as Microsoft considers this as a new PC. It's not the case with retail licences which can be transfered from one PC to another a couple of times. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Albert Charron +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Linux Counter member #157482 Registered computers: 195048, 164158, 279022, 323762 +-----------------------------------------------------------+ -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Drew Einhorn