Re: VMWare & WinXP

["enine" <enine () ninefamily com>]

Worked fine for me.  Bought new laptop and ran XP on it for about 6 months, reformatted and installed XP under vmware 
then activated under vmware without a problem.  I'm guessing they must measure the time between reactivating and if you 
try to active the same # within a few days but if you want a few months then they must assume its a normal reinstall.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com>
Date:  Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:22:08 -0600

> Are you saying you're trying to use the same copy of XP for both the
> host and the virtual machine? If so, it won't work and you would be
> violating your license. Each virtual machine, and the host, will need
> its own copy of XP.
>
> Further, the reason you have to activate it again in the VM is because
> XP is seeing the VM hardware - not the hardware that was originally
> activated with that license. I can tell you from personal experience
> that you are in for a nightmare getting it activated for anything
> beyond your original, host machine.
>
> On 11/28/05, Jason T. Hallahan <jthallah () gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello and good day,
> >
> > I recently purchased a laptop from Dell with Win XP Professional on it
> > for the purpose of setting up a VMWare virtual network for
> > honeypot/pen-testing purposes. However, when I go to install my new
> > copy of XP (which is the host OS of my box) in a virtual machine, it
> > won't activate. I tried calling Microsoft and going through the
> > automated process on the phone, but it says my installation is
> > invalid. Is there any way around this (I am not trying to cheat
> > Microsoft here) or any way to speak to a Microsoft representation to
> > explain my situation? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 




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