Glenn, On Monday 29 January 2007, Glenn Johnson wrote: > After being pleased with the performance of Windows XP under > VirtualBox, I decided it was time to activate my guest Windows XP > installation and be free of dual booting. However, I found out that I > can not activate my Windows XP installation because it is an OEM > version that uses a BIOS locked key. Of course, the virtual BIOS, as > well as other virtual hardware, are not like the physical hardware so > I seem to be hitting a wall. Has anyone else run into this scenario?
that is expected behaviour. VirtualBox could try to emulate the properties WinXP expects from your real hardware but this might be a difficult job as there is not only the BIOS but also other things (at least some information about the harddisk, maybe others). Kind regards, Frank -- ## InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, http://www.innotek.de ##
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