LOL! Yeah, that's the kind of "lucky" i'm talking about. That would be the
road i'll would trail if i would try that.


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Eric S. Johansson <e...@harvee.org> wrote:

>
> On 12/12/2013 6:49 AM, Leonardo Carneiro wrote:
> > Hi Alfredo.
> >
> > There has already been a big discussion here on the list (i guess you
> > can find in the archives) about the possibility of installing a
> > Windows OEM license in VirtualBox. MS does not approve, you would not
> > be legalized and probably your installation will complain one time or
> > another about his license being invalid.
>
> I've had good luck with calling the activation phone number when
> activation doesn't work and saying that you've had to do major
> motherboard replacement/upgrade and now reinstalling when the activation
> failed.  It's kind of true. Mostly. As far as I'm concerned, a VM is a
> major motherboard replacement. :-)
>
> I think the major difference over previous OS releases is that Microsoft
> is now paying attention to the number of times a license key is used
> both in parallel and serial. I've cloned activated VM's and after two or
> three clonings, the VM stops working. Maybe I was just unlucky but it
> took another call to get the VM's to work.
>
> --- eric
>
>
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