Vista Home license now allows virtualization

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:42:45PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> 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?

Ehm, I don't think that change applies to OEM versions, only retail
(full and upgrade) versions.  Not sure though (and I sure can't find
that info in microsoft's web site).

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