From: "Geo." 

Well something is triggering activation, the most likely cause is it thinks
it's on another machine or it's got some way of detecting that it's running
in a vm.

Geo.

"Richard Gauszka"  wrote in
message news:45d27c7c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> yep - I haven't done any VMware updates so Vista should see the same
> virtual machine each time I boot  ( XP has no problem )
>
> http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/faqs.html
>
> The VMware virtualization layer maps the physical hardware resources to
> the virtual machine's resources, so each virtual machine has its own CPU,
> memory, disks, and I/O devices, and is the full equivalent of a standard
> x86 machine.
>
> Geo. wrote:
>> The activation keys vista to the hardware. Is the VM presenting exactly
>> the same hardware (including serial numbers) each time you start it up?
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote
in message
>> news:45d27567{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> It's a MSDN Vista Business edition  - that version along with Vista
>>> Ultimate is allowed to run in a virtual machine.
>>>
>>> http://download.microsoft.com/documents/useterms/Windows
>>> Vista_Business_English_e59f6893-6b14-4262-964c-993ed16d138a.pdf
>>>
>>> That's why I installed that version in VMware.  Actually I think all
>>> MSDN versions are allowed to be virtualized  but I know Vista and
>>> Ultimate are the only ones allowed in the retail version so I tried to
>>> stick with that rule
>>>
>>>
>>> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:45d268f3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> Vista license says you can't run it in a VM doesn't it?
(lets you get
>>>> under all the DRM, that's baaaaad).
>>>>
>>>> Geo.
>>>>
>>>> "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote in message
>>>> news:45d24d6d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> Vista Business ( MSDN ) running in Vmware Workstation
5.5.3.  ( no
>>>>> changes or updates to VMware ) has required
reactivation every time
>>>>> I've run Windows Update. I'm in the 3rd 'your
activation period has
>>>>> expired' scenario right now. Since I've already activated twice
>>>>> already I've decided to give up as not to use up my
MSDN product keys
>>>>> with a braindead Vista activation scheme
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>

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