From: "Rich Gauszka" 

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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