On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote:
I doubt that would work. The virtual machine
identifies itself as
different hardware from the host, so the MS
profit-protection would
kick in, claiming you were trying to run the same
copy of the OS on two
different computers.
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On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 18:38 +, Mick wrote:
On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote:
I doubt that would work. The virtual machine
identifies itself as
different hardware from the host, so the MS
profit-protection would
kick in, claiming you were trying to run the same
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:13:35 +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
You are right that XP should work - or you can install it on a virtual
machine. I am not sure what advantages you get from running vmware from
a partition (unless of course you also want to dual boot).
I doubt that would work. The
I doubt that would work. The virtual machine
identifies itself as
different hardware from the host, so the MS
profit-protection would
kick in, claiming you were trying to run the same
copy of the OS on two
different computers.
--
Neil Bothwick
Mebbe I'm confusing wine with vmware.
Be interested to hear from anyone else this has
ever
happened to.
Maxim
Do you mean the host PC shutsdown? And by sda1, do
you mean you're installing
to a NTFS partition and not to a virtual hard disk?
Do I understand right
that the installation of XP went OK but booting
fails?
On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote:
vmware hasn't even been merged yet. _Booting_ both
OSes is OK. XP fails; gentoo does not. If I'm not
mistaken XP has to at least work before vmware will.
(...)
I'm guessing it's my video card, a Radeon 9250
You are right that XP should work - or
Hi group,
Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies
suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere
between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards
without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off.
And when it reboots it doesn't complain about a sudden
shutdown, just
On Saturday 22 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote:
Hi group,
Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies
suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere
between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards
without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off.
And when it
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