Mick wrote: > On Sunday 04 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sun, 4 May 2008 19:47:13 +0100, Mick wrote: >>> I assumed (wrongly) that since it is the same physical hardware and the >>> same partition image it will not ask me to re-register it. >> But it's not the same hardware, you are now running it on the VB virtual >> hardware. > > Sure, but it's the same physical drive & IDE controller, no? Yes, but the way a virtual machine works is that it creates its own set of "hardware" and emulates that hardware for the OS you're running. The VM software itself acts as a bridge between calls made to this virtual "hardware" and the true hardware in your system.
The three days is from the time you first boot the machine in the VM - it remembers, even if it's shut down. -Tim -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
