Vista Virtual PC activation/licensing

[sforeht]

I have Vista installed in a dual boot environment on my machine at the
moment. I am doing development in VS2005, with Office 2003, and
testing the work on Vista with Office 2007. I'm tired of having to
reboot back and forth, and so I thought I'd try Virtual PC 2007, and
put Vista on the VM.

It is currently installing, but now I'm thinking ahead to activation
and I have a suspicion that it won't work because the key has been
used on the dual boot machine! I don't particularly want to buy
another license key - it won't ever have both machines booted at the
same time...

Is there a way to "deactivate" the key on the dual boot machine and
then activate the VM?

 

[David B.]

There is no such thing as deactivation. If you have 2 licenses, one on the
host, one for the guest, you'll need to use the phone activation method.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

You won't be able to run two copies without purchasing a second product
licence. Also bear in mind that if you are using Vista Home and/or Vista
Home Premium you are breaking the licence agreement by installing either of
these on virtual machine software. Virtual machine copies can only be used
on Ultimate and, I believe, Business, but 'not' home or home premium. Yes
people are using VM with Premium but they are in violation of the licence
agreement.

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[AJR]

The Vista Enterprise version license provides for installing Vista on four
virtual PCs.

 

[Mac]

John, do you refer to this...?

4. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software
installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated)
hardware system.

If so, I don't think it is saying what you imply...

 

[Mac]

Or maybe it does, which would imply WVHP can never be installed in any
situation in a virtual machine... weird...

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Mac, I am referring to the text you quotes and, Yes, at first I thought on
the same lines as you, but reading other MS posts it appears that the
comments made in my last post are, in fact, correct. You can't use VM
software on Vista home or Home premium. It can only be used on Vista
Ultimate.

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Windows - Shell/User

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[Mac]

John,

Aren't there two issues here -

1) The VPC07 product is not "supported" on WVH/HP, but will install and
function *legally*.
2) The WVH/HP license is saying that WVH/HP cannot be used *in* any virtual
machine. Not that you can't use VM's on WVH/HP.

In my case I have successfully set up Ubuntu 7.04 to run in VirtualBox 1.04,
and WS08beta to run in VPC07, both on top of my WVHP and don't think I am
doing anything illegal.

What seems crazy is that the WVH/HP license seems to forbid anyone using any
VM on any host to install it within the VM.

 

[Terry]

Does anyone know how to license the 4 virtual PC's?