From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Vista shouldn't have a problem even if it knows it's running in a vm as
it's allowed for the Business and Ultimate versions. Hopefully the Vista
activation checking team read the EULA.

I'll probably just wait till the Vista ready VMware 6.0 comes out before I
sacrifice another MSDN Vista license :-(


"Geo."  wrote in message
news:45d28eab$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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