On 13/11/13 11:59, José Silva wrote: > On 13/11/13 00:26, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 13/11/13 09:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 21:36 +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: >>>> 1.8GHz dual core and 4G RAM >>>> attempting Win XP in VBox for even the most simple >>>> tasks was a royal PITA. >>> >>> Then something is fishy. >>> >>>> (Also one reason to keep the Win in the dual-boot manner is that >>>> I have a valid OEM license there, which I believe cannot be >>>> migrated to VM.) >> >> >> That's incorrect - I've done (automated) many, many times successfully >> with all versions of Windoof except the latest. Your biggest problems >> will be support for external devices (USB/LP/Com/Firewire) and that's >> determined by, correct settings, CPU support. >> > He probably has an OEM SLP license, married to a key in the original > machine bios, which won't work in the VM because it obviously has a > different bios that doesn't have the key.
Please re-read my post. > I think there are ways of overcoming this, inserting the "key" in the VM > bios, but I doubt it's legal. > > I know, I gave instructions to deal with that (for that reason). Are you a lawyer? Do you have reason why the qualified legal advice I was given is incorrect? (read the bit about "unless you have a developers license). Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5282da01.70...@gmail.com
