In the following link you can download official and legal windows virtual machines for any test.
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ El dom., 17 mar. 2019 a las 20:03, Giuliano Colla (< giuliano.co...@fastwebnet.it>) escribió: > Il 14/03/2019 18:32, Bart ha scritto: > > That is not really the issue. > > My machine is Win10 on i5 with 8GB memory. > > I run Mint in aVirtualBox VM (a bit sluggish, but do-able). > > I don't have a Windows installable medium with license that I can > > install into a VM. > > And I'm not gonna buy it, nor am I gonna use some pitate copy. > > You don't need to buy a licence, or to use a pirated copy to run your > Windows in a VM. > > You may run your legal copy of Windows on a VM just by using the raw > disk or raw partition feature of VirtualBox. > > What I've done is the following. > > I have repartitioned the original disk in order to free enough space for > a Linux install. > By installing Linux on the free space, the first result is to have a > dual boot box. > Then, in Linux I have created my VM machines, and among them a Windows > VM which just uses the Windows partitions of the disk. > That way the physical disk is the same of the original install, and > Windows doesn't complain about licensing issues. > You may find detailed instructions on how to do it in the VirtualBox > Help, under Advanced topics->Advanced storage configuration. But > basically that's done from Linux with just one command line, which in my > case is: > > VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/VirtualBox\ > VMs/Windows7/windows7.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 1,2,3,5 -mbr > win7.mbr > > where the required MBR has been created from Linux with sort of: > > dd if=/dev/sda of=win7.mbr count=1 > > if you want to get the main MBR, or > > dd if=/dev/sda1 of=win7.mbr count=1 > > if you want to get the MBR from the Windows start partition. > > If you select a "conservative" Linux distro (such as CentOs) you get a > rock solid, bullet proof, main OS for any other task, you may do a lot > of Windows testing by just using wine, and you may safely play with all > of yours VM's, creating snapshots before doing dangerous things such as > tampering with registry. But you keep the chance to run the "native" > Windows in order to judge the real performance, and look. > > Maybe, before doing all of that, a full backup of your disk with > Clonezilla would be a wise precaution.... > > Giuliano > > -- > Do not do to others as you would have them do to you.They might have > different tastes. > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel >
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