Great question, I know I get like 500 MAK licenses for that purpose. The Vol Licensing phone desk just told me to call in and they can reset the counters for that. Never going to be putting 4 instances on our 170 PC's at one client so we have plenty of licenses at this point.
I would call the help desk and ask them specifically about the portability issue, but I would not see any problem with doing this. Greg From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vista Ent Virtual Licensing Does anybody know what the deal is with the vista licensing. We have allot of QA and Dev guys who we are looking at upgrading to Vista Ent as part of our Enterprise Agreement. These guys all use a number of VM's on their machine for testing purposes. I understand that we are allowed to run up to 4 vista vm's on each of their desktops as part of this however there is one major flaw. After testing the activation of one of these vm's it does in fact decrement our licence counter. Meaning that once we have activated the number of licenses we have available to us then bam.. no more licenses. Also im trying to work out how this structure works with the portability of the vm's. Anyone have any dealings with this I'd be interested to hear or any more up to date information. Cheers Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
