From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"RobertB"  wrote in message
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> >>
>> Then he rebooted and ran Parallels.  No wireless in the lecture hall.  He
>> disabled wireless networking in Parallels.  Boom.  Up came the thievery
>> screen.  No more Vista for him that night.
>
> Why exactly did this happen? Because Vista (all but the most expensive
> version) will not run in a VM?
>


Vista runs in a VM. Some ( myself included ) have had re-activation issues
with Vista when the MAC address of the Virtual Machine's network adapter
has been set to dynamic ( appears to be the default in VMware - not sure
about Parallels ).  Once I changed my VM MAC address to fixed my
re-activation problems went away

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