From: "Geo." 

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
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> 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
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>> 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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