If its for a render farm you can install windows7 on as many machines you like. You just need a working serial, eg. from one of the workstations where you already bought a legal copy of windows for. It's a bit shady but not illegal I think. You just don't activate it and it will not stop working. After the grace period certain things stop working like windows aero and the desktop background turns black and things like that to prevent users to actually work with it conveniently. And it's not possible to receive windows updates after that 30 days. But usually no one logs in on render nodes (except remotely once in a while). Usually these machines have no internet connection either.
Making a sysprepped image of windows7 however is a bit more hassle than it was with XP64 but it's possible to include everything in a sysprepped image like windows key, language setting, timezone, workgroup etc. Even the annoying thing that windows7 forces you to create an additional user at first boot time can be skipped. So after you deployed the image on the render nodes you only have to set the machine name once. Some infos here: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/happens-windows-not-activated-34196.html http://brianleejackson.com/sysprep-a-windows-7-machine-start-to-finish-v2/ sven From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of phil harbath Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 6:37 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: softimage 2015 and Vista softimage 2014 was not supported under Vista, however you could install it on it... which was, like nice. It would not be bad if I had to buy 1 or 2 copies of windows 8 but it is quite a bit more than that. From: Rob Wuijster <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2014 4:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: softimage 2015 and Vista Vista? Really? ;-) But according to this: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/softimage/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/System-requirements-for-Autodesk-Softimage-2015.html it's Win7 and up. Time to let go and move on ;-P Rob \/-------------\/----------------\/ On 8-11-2014 6:01, phil harbath wrote: yes, it is 64 bit. I tried it 2 64 bit Vista machines, I get an error the OS is not supported. From: Angus Davidson <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 11:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: softimage 2015 and Vista Hi Phil Is the Vista 64 bit ? Far as I know soft 2015 is 64 bit only From: phil harbath <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday 08 November 2014 at 1:54 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: softimage 2015 and Vista is there no way to install Softimage 2015 on Vista, the installer refused to do it. This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South Afric an Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5315 / Virus Database: 4189/8533 - Release Date: 11/08/14
