Peter Hardy wrote:
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:48 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
I need something able to run Windows XP Pro (that's the only current
Windows licence I have).
As an aside, I've been wondering about the legalities of this.
My laptop dual-boots Windows XP and Linux. I'm planning on using the
same licence for the native XP install, and the virtual one under Linux.
Gut feeling tells me that should be perfectly OK. Although I'm not sure
if I'll have any sort of activation issues, or MS lawyers knocking on my
door.
I think if you read the EULA very carefully that you will be in breach
of the licence, and if you have activated it as native then you almost
certainly won't be able to activate it again because the reported config
will be different; but then IANAME (I am not a Microsoft expert)
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