Vista Home license now allows virtualization

Andrej Marjan amarjan-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Jan 29 01:55:15 UTC 2008


On January 25, 2008 12:49:40 pm D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> [Notice that I'm top posting.  In this case I think it is logical.]
>
> Now that we've chewed over the legal aspects (important!), has anybody any
> experience or thoughts on the technical aspects of trying to run an
> OEM Windows Vista, with no installation medium, under some
> Linux-hosted virtualization system?

VMware has a "Converter" tool that will virtualize NT 4 and 5-based Windows 
installations, but they don't mention Vista:

http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/

That's the only tool I know about for virtualizing Windows.
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