Vista Home license now allows virtualization

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Wed Jan 23 20:42:45 UTC 2008


http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080121-microsoft-relents-vista-virtualization-ban-lifted.html

Now: how can I pick up my pre-installed Vista by the scruff of the neck 
and run it under Xen or whatever?

I'm pessimistic.  I suspect that the pre-installed Vista, and the restore 
disk, won't run because the virtual evironment has different I/O devices.  
Even if it has drivers for the virtual devices, it might guess that it is 
being pirated because so many things in its environment changed all at 
once.

Has anyone tried this?
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